Major hurricane Iota smashes into Central America
- 3 years ago
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Central America is facing its second major hurricane.
The massive category 4 hurricane Iota has made landfall in the region,... yet to recover from previous storm damage.
For more on this and other news from around the world, we turn to our Lee Kyung-eun.
Kyung-eun, what's the latest?
Hurricane Iota directly hit Nicaragua on late Monday,... killing at least two people and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate.
It is the strongest storm ever recorded in the country... packing winds of up to 2-hundred-50 kilometers per hour.
Nicaragua is just 25 kilometers away from where a similar category 4 hurricane, Eta, had made landfall,.. just two weeks ago.
Iota previously swept through Colombia as a stronger category 5 storm,... damaging 98 percent of infrastructure on an Caribbean island.
It is slowing making its way west,.. putting Honduras and Guatemala also on high alert.
Central America is facing its second major hurricane.
The massive category 4 hurricane Iota has made landfall in the region,... yet to recover from previous storm damage.
For more on this and other news from around the world, we turn to our Lee Kyung-eun.
Kyung-eun, what's the latest?
Hurricane Iota directly hit Nicaragua on late Monday,... killing at least two people and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate.
It is the strongest storm ever recorded in the country... packing winds of up to 2-hundred-50 kilometers per hour.
Nicaragua is just 25 kilometers away from where a similar category 4 hurricane, Eta, had made landfall,.. just two weeks ago.
Iota previously swept through Colombia as a stronger category 5 storm,... damaging 98 percent of infrastructure on an Caribbean island.
It is slowing making its way west,.. putting Honduras and Guatemala also on high alert.