Hurricane Dorian's death toll in the Bahamas climbed to 50 on Monday as more deaths were reported, officials said.
Hurricane Dorian's death toll in the Bahamas climbed to 50 on Monday as more deaths were reported from the storm that plowed through the country last week, officials said.Forty-two bodies have been found in Abaco and eight recovered on Grand Bahama, said Anthony Ferguson, commissioner of Royal Bahamas Police Force."The situation is pretty dire here," college student Kristoff Strachan on Grand Bahama told MSNBC by phone over the weekend.
Rescue workers were going door to door and U.S. Coast Guard helicopters were evacuating critically injured residents.
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