Wilma tears into heart of Caribbean resort strip

HURRICANE Wilma tore into the heart of Mexico’s Caribbean resort strip last night, trapping thousands of frightened tourists in darkened shelters pounded by torrential rains and shrieking winds.

Wilma tears into heart of Caribbean resort strip

The eye of the mammoth storm, which had already killed 13 people, moved over Cozumel Island and was expected to pound the area for two days, raising the possibility of catastrophic damage, before curling around Cuba and sprinting toward Florida.

The storm, with 140 mph winds, shattered windows and downed trees that crushed cars. Pay phones jutted from waist-deep floodwaters in the famed hotel zone. Power had been cut before the storm as a precautionary measure.

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