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Members of the Guadeloupe Adapted Military Service Regiment gather detritus on September 18, 2017, as they clean Sandy Ground on the French Caribbean island of Saint-Martin, after it was hit by Hurricane Irma, and in order to limit the risk of flooding and projectiles as Hurricane Maria approaches the Caribbean.
Hurricane Maria barrelled towards the storm-battered eastern Caribbean and was expected to strengthen on September 18 as it churned along a path similar to that of megastorm Irma earlier in the month. The new storm, which the US National Hurricane Center warned could become a “major hurricane”, threatens the French territory of Guadeloupe, which was the staging area for relief operations for several islands hit by Irma. / AFP PHOTO / Helene Valenzuela