Hurricane Otto: Costa Rica and Nicaragua evacuate as storm grows
by Associated Press in Managua from on (#22TK2)
Hurricane makes landfall on Nicaraguan coast just north of border with Costa Rica
Hurricane Otto strengthened to a category two storm as it made landfall on the sparsely populated Caribbean border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica as an unusually strong late-season event.
The US National Hurricane Center said Otto hit land near the town of San Juan de Nicaragua with winds of 110 mph around midday local time.
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