Hurricane Fiona Slams Turks and Caicos as Category 3 Storm
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic—Hurricane Fiona bore down on Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday as a powerful Category 3 storm, slamming the Caribbean archipelago with heavy rains and life-threatening flooding after cutting a path of destruction through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
U.S. officials said on Tuesday the storm had claimed four lives in Puerto Rico. A fifth person was killed in Guadeloupe earlier in the week.
On Tuesday morning, the storm slammed Grand Turk, the Turks and Caicos’s biggest island, and was moving closer to the main cluster of islands by afternoon, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its 11 a.m. Eastern update….