The tropical storm Fay, which killed at least 57 people in other Caribbean countries over the week-end, struck the southwest coast of Cuba, this Monday, a journey which aims to Florida in the United States as a Hurricane likely.

The storm hit Cuba with winds of 80 kilometres per hour and proceeding north.

The National Center for Hurricanes in Miami reported that Fay was to move the nearly 19 kilometres per hour and was expected to reach the Straits of Florida and the Florida Keys late at night. At that time, is approaching the strength of a hurricane, meaning at least kilometer winds to 118 per hour.

Cuba ordered the evacuation of casualties shares of Havana, fearing that heavy rains could flood the capital, causing the collapse of dilapidated buildings.

In Florida Keys, tourists fleeing the storm Fay, the sixth storm of the season of cyclones in the Atlantic.

In Haiti, about 50 people died when a bus tried to cross a river, whose flow has increased with heavy rainfall. Other five people died in Haiti and the Dominican Republic due to accidents related to the floods.

In Jamaica a middle-aged moving couple died in the capital, Kingston, when the car was caught in a flooded road.

In Florida, 500 National Guard officers were deployed and some schools that were planned opening this Monday remain closed.