Six people at a Florida nursing home died after the home was left without power following the passage of Hurricane Irma.
Six people have died at a Florida nursing home that was left without power for days after Hurricane Irma.
Police evacuated 120 residents from the facility on Wednesday, which the storm left without air conditioning.
Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief said three were found dead at the Hollywood Hills nursing home. The others died after reaching hospital.
Ten million people are still without power in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas after Hurricane Irma.
Irma which has claimed more than two dozen lives in the US, struck southwestern Florida on Sunday morning as a category four storm before weakening to a tropical depression on Monday.
More than half of a large retirement community in Pembroke Pines, Florida, still had no electricity this morning, leaving elderly residents stuck in rooms with no access to lifts.
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