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 made landfall Sunday evening on the northern coast of east Cuba before it weakened to a tropical storm as it moved across the island, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Tropical Storm Oscar remained crouched over eastern Cuba, where it could drop more than a foot of rain as it crawls over the island nation at 3 mph. Oscar was a tiny, weak storm, with tropical-storm-force winds extending just 45 miles from the center and maximum sustained winds at 40 mph.