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Hurricane death toll rises to 30 in Bahamas

 

Officials in the Bahamas brought in more body bags and coolers as the death toll from Hurricane Dorian rose to 30 and hundreds remain missing.

The number of fatalities is expected to climb as the extent of the damage becomes clear.
“Literally hundreds, up to thousands, of people are still missing,” said Joy Jibrilu, director general of the country’s tourism and aviation ministry.
Body bags, additional morticians and refrigerated coolers to store bodies are being transported to Abaco and other affected areas, Health Minister Dr. Duane Sands told Guardian Radio 96.9 FM. Four morticians in Abaco are embalming remains because officials have run out of coolers, he said.
Rescue workers recover the body of a victim of Hurricane Dorian on Thursday in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco Island.
“The public needs to prepare for unimaginable information about the death toll and the human suffering,” Sands said.
“Make no bones about it, the numbers will be far higher,” he said. “It is going to be significantly higher than that. And it’s just a matter of retrieving those bodies, making sure we understand how they died. It seems like we are splitting hairs, but not everyone who died, died in the storm.”
Even with the grim update, there was some good news amid the desperate search for survivors.

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