Hurricane Matthew has left at least 10 people dead in the United States as it continued to travel up the Atlantic coastline landing in South Carolina on Saturday.
The fury of Hurricane Matthew killed three in North Carolina, three in Georgia and four in Florida, and the coastal states have been calling on residents to take cautionary measures.
In the US, the hurricane made landfall near McClellanville in South Carolina, a village 48 km north of Charleston which itself was devastated by a Category 4 hurricane in 1989.
Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley advised people to find shelters and to stay away from their houses on Saturday and Sunday.
Destructive winds and a storm surge from Matthew lashed central and northern Florida relentlessly on Friday. Electrical transformers blew up trees and brought down lines, knocking out power feeding nearly 1.6 million households and businesses in the US Southeast, the majority of them in Florida.
Millions of people are still in the path of the deadly hurricane, the most powerful one to make landfall in the US since 2007. The US Atlantic coast has still more to brace for in the upcoming days.
Matthew has already caused nearly 900 deaths in Haiti and four in the Dominican Republic over the past few days.
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