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Marsh Harbour, Bahamas -- In a once sprawling shantytown on Great Abaco Island, Roger Isma stared out over a wasteland of soggy mattresses, splintered buildings, overturned cars, torn clothing, shattered toilets, dead dogs, bent forks and mud, miles and miles of mud.
The area for reasons all too obvious after the devastation of Hurricane Dorian is called The Mudd, and it was home to thousands of Haitians, Haitian Bahamians and other, largely undocumented migrants. Now its gone.
As the government of the Bahamas scrambled to help the living on Thursday, it was still a long way from accounting for the dead. As of Thursday night, the official death toll in the Bahamas had risen to at least 30, but many residents are convinced The Mudd has become something of a common grave.
Nobody knows how many dead people there are because no one has started looking there, Isma said. But theyre out there, in the water, under the houses.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article234739387.html
muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)"The public needs to prepare for unimaginable information about the death toll and the human suffering," he told local radio.
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The International Red Cross fears 45% of homes on Grand Bahama and the Abacos - some 13,000 properties - were severely damaged or destroyed.
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The Island of Great Abaco is virtually uninhabitable, with bodies piled up, no water, power or food, and militias formed to prevent looting, local media report.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49602445
Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)From OPs Miami Herald link:
The help was not coming so fast to The Mudd, a patch of poverty in the midst of an island once dotted by extreme wealth the kind that attracts jet-setters and mega yachts. Haitians here have long complained about discrimination and lack of opportunities. Now they fear they will be the last in line for aid.
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