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Media captionHurricane Irma heads for Turks and Caicos
Hurricane Irma has caused a trail of destruction across parts of the Caribbean, battering a number of islands and reducing buildings to rubble.
It is predicted to head north-west towards the US mainland by the weekend, but what lies in its path before that?
How big and powerful is Hurricane Irma?
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