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Hurricane Alex strengthens ahead of landfall


    MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Alex strengthened into a CatCentre2 storm over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday and was due to hit north-eastern Mexico very soon, the U.S. National Hurricane Centre said.

    The Miami-based hurricane Centre said Alex, the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic storm season, was now packing sustained winds of near 100 miles (155 km) per hour and on track to make landfall near the Texas-Mexico border in a few hours but well away from the U.S. Gulf oil patch.

    (Editing by Sandra Maler)