Cuban provinces put on
alert as Hurricane Dean
advances
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.
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