Hurricane Beryl causes damage across Caribbean

Fishing vessels damaged by Hurricane Beryl sit upended at the Bridgetown Fisheries in Barbados (Ricardo Mazalan/AP))

Hurricane Beryl ripped off doors, windows, and roofs in homes across the southeastern Caribbean on Monday after making landfall on the island of Carriacou, the earliest storm of Category 4 strength to form in the Atlantic, fueled by record warm waters.

The US National Hurricane Centre said the storm had strengthened to Category 5 status late on Monday while Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said one person had died.