LAKE CHARLES – At least six people were killed by Hurricane Laura in Louisiana and search teams may find more victims but the governor said Thursday that the most powerful storm to make landfall in the US state in living memory did not cause the “catastrophic” damage that had been feared.
Hurricane Laura struck the coast of Louisiana early Thursday as a Category 4 storm – the second-highest on the wind scale. It has since been downgraded to a tropical storm.
Hurricane Katrina, which left 1,800 people dead in 2005, was a Category 3 storm when it made landfall. Only one storm has made landfall in Louisiana with wind speeds as high as Laura – the Last Island hurricane of 1856, which left hundreds dead. (AFP)
