A week after Hurricane Dorian made landfall in the Bahamas, search and rescue efforts were continuing.The island nation’s infrastructure has been devastated, slowing recovery efforts.
Archbishop Patrick C Pinder of Nassau, Bahamas, shared a video online with information about the landfall of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.
Dorian was a Category 5 hurricane when it made landfall on 1 September in the Bahamas. Pinder said the hurricane caused, “Massive destruction on a scale we have never before seen in our little nation.” The Archdiocese of Nassau has reached out to its counterparts in other countries for support.
The official death toll for the storm in the Bahamas is at 44, but there is no official estimate for how many people are still missing. There are currently 70,000 people left homeless by the storm.
The worst damage was in the Abacos islands, in the northern part of the Bahamas. Many undocumented Haitian immigrants live in informal housing in Abacos, that does not meet the country’s strict building codes. It is likely the death toll will continue to rise as rescue crews make slow progress through the most impacted neighbourhoods.
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