Tropical Storm Oscar dumps heavy rain on Cuba as it heads for Bahamas

Oscar is heading to the Bahamas Oscar (NOAA via AP)

Tropical Storm Oscar has dumped heavy rain across eastern Cuba after making landfall as a Category 1 hurricane on the island already beleaguered by a massive power outage.

Its maximum sustained winds blew at 45mph on Monday as Oscar moved west at 2mph. The storm was located about five miles east of Guantanamo, Cuba, the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.