Hurricane Melissa leaves 25 dead in Haiti and causes damage in Jamaica and Cuba

People walk through Santa Cruz, Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa passed (Matias Delacroix/AP)

Flooding from Hurricane Melissa has killed 25 people in Haiti while the storm still churned across Cuba on Wednesday after leaving Jamaica with widespread damage and power outages, officials said.

Jean Bertrand Subreme, mayor of the southern Haitian coastal town of Petit-Goave, told The Associated Press that 25 people died after La Digue river burst its banks and flooded nearby homes.