Hurricane Oscar made landfall early Sunday in the southeastern Bahamas and was heading toward Cuba, an island beleaguered by a massive power outage.

Hurricane Oscar made landfall over eastern Cuba on Sunday with maximum sustained winds near 80 miles (130 kilometers) per hour, the US National Hurricane Center said.

Hurricane Oscar is expected to make landfall along Guantanamo or Holguin, Cuba, by Sunday afternoon, National Hurricane Center forecasters said. As of 2 p.m. Sunday, Oscar was a small Category 1 hurricane located about 80 miles east-northeast of Guantanamo,