Dorian's devastation in Bahamas: 2,500 people are still missing

By artappraiser on Thu, 09/12/2019 - 4:38am |

By Rebecca Falconer @ Axios.com, updated 4 hrs. ago, with numerous photos

Some 2,500 people are listed as missing in the Bahamas more than a week after Hurricane Dorian devastated the Caribbean islands, National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Carl Smith told a news conference Wednesday.

The latest: The death toll remained at 50 but the large number of people missing meant it would significantly increase, Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said in a national address. Smith cautioned that the missing persons list had yet to be checked against government records of who had been evacuated.

About 5,000 people have been evacuated from the 2 hardest hit islands, [....]

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