Dorian lashes Canada, then weakens

TORONTO, Canada - The storm that already walloped the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and North Carolina lashed at far eastern Canada with hurricane-force winds for much of on Sunday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people before weakening and heading into the North Atlantic Ocean.

Dorian hit near the city of Halifax on Saturday afternoon, ripping roofs off apartment buildings, toppling a huge construction crane and uprooting trees. There were no reported deaths in Canada, though the storm was blamed for at least 50 elsewhere along its path.

The US National Hurricane Center said the post-tropical cyclone was centered about 600 kilometers north of Cape Race, Newfoundland, late on Sunday. Its top sustained winds continued at 95 kilometers per hour, after being above the 120 km/h threshold of hurricane force earlier in the day. The storm was heading to the east-northeast, roughly up the St. Lawrence River, at 39 km/h.