Three people are dead and more than 172 injured after a rare tornado ripped through Cuba's capital, Havana. With wind speeds of up to 100km/hr (60 mph), the first tornado to hit the city in decades uprooted trees and cut power in poor areas late on Sunday.
President Miguel Diaz-Canel met emergency crews on the streets before dawn on Monday, and tweeted that the damage was "severe".
Pictures posted on Twitter showed homes destroyed and trucks overturned.
Staff at the Hijas de Galicia maternity hospital had to evacuate.
Photographers for the AFP news agency said parts of a balcony had been torn off one building in the Luyano neighborhood.
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