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Powerful Hurricane Eta Continues on Slow Path Over Central America

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   Hurricane Eta continues on a destructive path over the Central American
   nations of Nicaragua and Honduras hours after making landfall along the
   Nicaraguan coast.

   The U.S.NationalHurricane Center says Eta is moving inland over
   northeastern Nicaragua carrying maximum sustained winds of 140
   kilometers an hour. Forecasters are warning of life-threatening storm
   surges, damaging winds and flash floods over portions of Central
   America.

   Hurricane Eta made landfall Tuesday near the eastern Nicaraguan coastal
   town of Puerto Cabezas, carrying maximum sustained winds of 225
   kilometers an hour, making it a Category 4 storm on the five-level
   scale that measures a storm's potential destructiveness.

   At least three people have been killed as a result of Eta. A
   12-year-girl in Honduras was killed when her home was buried in a
   landslide, while two miners were killed in a mudslide in Nicaragua.

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