The United States offered Cuba USD 50,000 in disaster assistance and urged US-based humanitarian groups to send aid to the island after it was badly hit by Hurricane Charley. The US regrets the damage caused by Hurricane Charley and expresses its solidarity with the Cuban people," deputy State Department spokesman Adam Ereli. Hurricane Charley tore roofs off houses, uprooted trees and downed power lines as it drove across Cuba early Friday, but no deaths were immediately reported.Violent winds battered the capital, Havana, damaging buildings and bringing down power and telephone cables. Electricity and gas supplies were cut and floods were reported in parts of the south coast after the storm churned waves of up to five meters.

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