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Six people have died in the south-eastern Caribbean after Hurricane Beryl, the strongest of its kind ever recorded at this time of year, wreaked havoc across several islands. Beryl, which was temporarily upgraded to a “potentially catastrophic” category 5 – the highest level – late on Monday, has since lost some of its intensity, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Tuesday afternoon. With sustained maximum winds of 250 kilometres per hour, Beryl is now a category 4 again, though just below the threshold of 251 km/h for category 5, according to the NHC. Beryl made landfall on Monday …

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