The hurricane made landfall Wednesday night as a Category 3 hurricane, with sustained winds of up to 120 miles (193 kilometers) per hour, although it has lost intensity until it is a Category 1 hurricane as it moves toward the sea.
He Hurricane Milton has already left 16 dead as it passes through the North American state Floridaaccording to the latest balance provided by police last Friday.
The latest identified person to die is a man in his 60s who died after stepping on a power line while removing debris, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement reported by ABC News.
The hurricane made landfall Wednesday night as a Category 3, with sustained winds of up to 193 kilometers per houralthough it is losing intensity until it became a Category 1 hurricane as it moves towards the sea.
Milton is the fifth hurricane to make landfall in the United States so far this year and the third to hit Florida. Helene became the second-deadliest hurricane to hit the continental United States in the past fifty years, after Hurricane Katrina, which killed 1,833 people in 2005.
Source: EITB
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