Cuba put on alert its eastern provinces on Saturday as Hurricane Dean was plowing toward Jamaica and the Gulf of Mexico after threatening to grow into a monster Category 5 storm.
A hurricane alert was issued to the eastern provinces of Guantanamo, Santiago, Granma, Holguin and Las Tunas, Cuba's civil defense department said in a statement.
Dean, the first hurricane to hit the Atlantic coast this year, developed from a tropical storm on Thursday. It has claimed at least three lives in eastern Caribbean islands and Jamaica is expected to take a direct hit on Sunday.
The storm could approach Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico on Monday.
Source: Xinhua
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