Cuba without electricity after hurricane hammers power grid

(Ramon Espinosa/AP)

Hurricane Ian has knocked out power across all of Cuba and devastated some of the country’s most important tobacco farms after slamming into the island’s western tip as a major hurricane.

Cuba’s Electric Union said in a statement on Tuesday that work was underway to gradually restore service to the country’s 11 million people during the night. Power was initially knocked out to about 1 million people in Cuba’s western provinces, but later the entire grid collapsed.