Bahamas lifts Hurricane Dorian storm warnings, assesses destruction as death toll rises to 20
NASSAU, Bahamas — Houses torn open. Cars, boats and heavy equipment tossed and crumpled. Whole communities flooded, and flattened. Twenty dead, according to the official count, and more expected.
The government in this nation of 400,000 sounded the all-clear from Hurricane Dorian on Wednesday morning, lifting the tropical storm warning for Grand Bahama, the Abacos, Bimini and other battered islands.
As the storm, which slammed into the Bahamas on Sunday as a Category 5 hurricane and spent a devastating 40 hours grinding across Grand Bahama, finally lurched onward to the United States, the full scope of the destruction became clearer.
“We are in the midst of one of the greatest national crises in our country’s history,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said Tuesday night.
The official death toll rose to 20 as of Wednesday night. The Bahamas Minister of Health, Duane Sands, told The Washington Post that 17 dead were reported in the Abacos and three were reported in Grand Bahama. But that total is expected to rise as search efforts continue in areas of the islands that were decimated.
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