Hurricane Fiona was churning north on Monday evening after bringing torrential rain and powerful winds to the Dominican Republic and triggering a total power outage in neighbouring Puerto Rico, where at least two people died.

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The Category 2 hurricane will likely become a Category 3 as it moves across warm Caribbean waters toward the Turks and Caicos. Fiona was upgraded to a Category 2 with winds of 169kmh by the National Hurricane Center on Monday evening.

On Tuesday, the centre of Fiona is expected to pass near or to the east of the archipelago, which is subject to a current hurricane warning, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Tropical storm conditions were also expected in the Bahamas.

After strafing Puerto Rico, Fiona made landfall in the Dominican Republic near Boca Yuma at 3.30am local time, according to the NHC. The center of the storm had reached the northern coast of Hispanola before noon.

It is the first hurricane to score a direct hit on the country since Jeanne left severe damage in the east of the country in September 2004.

Fiona caused severe flooding, leaving several villages isolated, and about 800 evacuees and more than 11,000 people without power in the eastern region of the country.