Tropical Storm Oscar chugged toward the Bahamas on Tuesday after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least six people as it unleashed heavy rains on an island also hit by an unrelated massive power outage.

Oscar, which the National Hurricane Center characterized as "very small," is the 15th named storm of the hurricane season.

Hurricane Oscar has made landfall in eastern Cuba, an island beleaguered by a massive power outage, after striking the southeastern Bahamas. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the storm's center arrived in the Cuban province of Guantanamo,