Hurricane Iota: Category Five storm heads for Central America

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Hurricane Iota has strengthened as it roars towards Central America, less than two weeks after another devastating storm struck the region.

With winds of up to 160mph (260km/h), it is now a category five storm - the strongest on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Iota made landfall on Nicaragua's remote eastern coast on Monday evening local time.
"What's drawing closer is a bomb," said the president of neighbouring Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández.
Iota is the strongest Atlantic hurricane of the year and only the second November hurricane to reach category five - the last was in 1932.

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