Hundreds Flee Flood-Ravaged Bahamas
People await evacuation at a dock in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, on September 7, 2019, in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. Brendan Smialowski / AFPBahamians who lost everything in the devastating passage of Hurricane Dorian were scrambling Saturday to escape the worst-hit islands by sea or by air, after the powerful storm left at least 43 people dead with officials fearing a “significantly” higher toll.
For now, he said, supplies of food and water were adequate, though several witnesses from Abaco contested that.More than 260 Abacos residents arrived Friday in Nassau on a government-chartered ferry. Another, carrying 200, was set to leave on Saturday. Minnis said the death toll — 35 so far in the Abacos and eight in Grand Bahama — was likely to climb “significantly.”The final death toll “will be staggering,” Health Minister Duane Sands said earlier.UN relief officials said more than 70,000 people on Grand Bahama and Abaco were in need of assistance. The WFP was sending food and supplies.
“The home that we were in fell on us,” she said. “We had to crawl — got out crawling. By the grace of God we are alive.”“People have no food. People have no water, and it’s not right. They should have been gone.At Marsh Harbour’s commercial port, Miralda Smith, a Haitian national, had arrived overnight on foot and was waiting in sweltering heat with dozens of other evacuees for passage to Nassau.
Earlier, Dorian brought flooding and power outages but no major damage to the coastal Carolinas and Virginia.
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