Hurricane Dorian claims at least five lives in Bahamas | IOL News

Washington - Hurricane Dorian killed at least five people and caused "unprecedented" devastation in the Bahamas, the country's prime minister said Monday as the monster storm remained almost stationary over the two northern islands of the Caribbean chain for more than 30 hours.

Dorian was downgraded from a category 5 hurricane - the highest level - to a category 4 as it stalled over Atlantic Ocean archipelago, pummelling the islands with winds strong enough to rip the roofs off homes and topple trees, and a storm surge that brought intense flooding. Dorian made landfall on the Abaco Islands on Sunday afternoon and churned as a category 5 storm until it was downgraded Monday, though it still had sustained wind speeds of 220 kilometres per hour.

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