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The Jamaican government on Wednesday confirmed that four people had been killed after Hurricane Melissa, a then Category 5 hurricane, tore through the island on Tuesday with maximum sustained winds of 180 miles per hour (mph).
Local Government and Community Development Minister, Desmond McKenzie, who had earlier indicated that there had been no reports of deaths associated with the hurricane, said in a statement that the four persons had died in St Elizabeth, one of the largest parishes, located in the southwest of the island and that their bodies had washed up by the flood waters generated by the hurricane.
“These persons are, by all indications, direct victims of the hurricane, and I am hoping that there will be no more fatalities,” McKenzie said.
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