Hurricane Delta strengthened Thursday in category 3 on a scale of 5 as it approached the US coast, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
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Accompanied by winds blowing at 185 km / h, Delta was located at 9:00 p.m. GMT (11:00 p.m. in France) some 500 kilometers from Louisiana.