Atlantic Storm Elsa speeds towards Cuba’s central coast

Fears of heavy flooding as Cuba orders 180,000 people evacuated ahead of a storm that battered Caribbean islands.

Fast-moving Tropical Storm Elsa swept along Cuba’s southern coast early on Monday, and forecasters said it would make landfall on the island’s Bay of Pigs on its central coast by mid-afternoon before threatening Florida. Cuban officials had evacuated 180,000 people as a precaution against the possibility of heavy flooding from a storm that already battered several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people. “We continue with maximum attention focused on the track of storm Elsa through Cuba,” Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel tweeted. “Authorities are working all over the country.”