5.6 million people evacuated in Florida

US authorities have called for the evacuation of 5.6 million people in Florida who is approaching Hurricane Irma, who reaches the highest, category 5, the authorities have announced.

The evacuation order covers 5.6 million people, the crisis management agency said, which is 25 percent of the population of the US state.

Earlier, the evacuation order was issued to a million inhabitants of Florida, and hundreds of thousands of drivers rode on Friday on two motorways on that peninsula.

"It's a catastrophic storm, the kind that this country has never experienced before," said Governor Floride Rick Scott on Friday.

The Governor of Florida called on all of the Florida Keys, who will be first hit to leave their homes.

Irma should arrive to Florida on Sunday morning via the Florida Keys Island before hitting Miami with a wind speed of 240 km / h. Then followed by Georgia and South Carolina.

Local authorities have warned that "no place will be safe" in the Florida Keys Archipelago, the favorite tourist destination in southern Florida.

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• 10 Sep, 2017
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