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  • Nicaraguan officials evacuated residents over the weekend, bracing for a direct hit from hurricane iota which strengthened to a Category five and is forecast to make landfall in northeastern Nicaragua on Monday night.

  • I owed A, which is the first Category five storm in this 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, was packing maximum sustained winds of 160 MPH and was expected to bring a life threatening storm surge and extreme rainfall to Central America, according to the U.

  • S National Hurricane Center.

  • Authorities are warning that hurricane iota could exacerbate the massive destruction caused by Hurricane Ada, which slammed into the region two weeks ago, causing flooding and mudslides that killed scores of people from Panama to southern Mexico.

  • In Colombia, this local resident lost a family member from a landslide.

  • I'm gonna Serena, I have a niece who was buried by a landslide.

  • She was trapped in the mud with two little Children.

  • The unprecedented 2020 hurricane season comes as Central America is facing an economic crisis linked to the pandemic, with experts warning that calm pounding hardship could fuel a new round of migration from the region.

Nicaraguan officials evacuated residents over the weekend, bracing for a direct hit from hurricane iota which strengthened to a Category five and is forecast to make landfall in northeastern Nicaragua on Monday night.

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