Corpses Strewn, People Missing a Week After Dorian Hit the Bahamas

“The extent of the damage here and elsewhere in the Abaco Islands is so great, the work of assessing it so arduous and the Bahamian government so overwhelmed that a full accounting of the missing and dead may not be known for weeks or even months.

The official death toll attributed to the hurricane remained at 44 but there is no estimate yet of how many people are unaccounted for. The Bahamian security forces are still responding to reports of missing and trapped people, officials said, and teams of forensic investigators are still combing through the storm debris.”

The Wikipedia page for the hurricane estimates that at least 70,000 people were left homeless in the Bahamas. To put that into perspective, only 400,000 people lived in the Bahamas!