A five-year-old boy and his mother, along with a 92-year-old man, are among the six people dead after Hurricane Oscar hit the coastal city of Baracoa and nearby areas in the eastern province of Guantánamo in Cuba as a Category 1 storm on Sunday, bringing heavy rains and flash flooding in a region that has been without electricity since Friday.

The Cuban government is carrying out a series of actions to support the eastern province of Guantanamo, which continues today in a cyclone alert phase as a result of the flooding left by tropical storm Oscar.

Tropical Storm Oscar is chugging toward the Bahamas after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least six people

Cuba made fast progress restoring power to swaths of the Caribbean island nation on Tuesday, both in Havana and outlying provinces, even as emergency and grid workers struggled to reach areas ravaged by Tropical Storm Oscar.

The Cuban president says the deaths occurred in an area that saw historic flooding due to the storm.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel confirmed the preliminary death toll after Oscar made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane but provided no details of how the deaths had occurred.

Hurricane Oscar left six people dead after hitting Cuba over the weekend during a major power blackout, authorities said Monday, as electricity was restored to most of the capital.