'It's hell everywhere': collecting Dorian's dead in ravaged Bahamas

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In the desolation left after Hurricane Dorian carved a murderous path across the northern Bahamas, six men dressed in immaculate white overalls ...

MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas: In the desolation left after Hurricane Dorian carved a murderous path across the northern Bahamas, six men dressed in immaculate white overalls zip a corpse into a body bag.

They collect one body from among several shipping containers thrown around by the hurricane's destructive force. "It knocked off the top of this," Gordon adds, pointing to another concrete building reduced to little more than its front entrance and ground floor walls. The death toll appears mercifully low set against the destruction visible in every direction, but Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis expects the number to rise.

The few vehicles spared by the hurricane ply roadways cleared of cinder block fragments, sheets of corrugated iron, branches and palm fronds.

 

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