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"Corpses Strewn, People Missing a Week After Dorian Hit the Bahamas" [1]

"MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas — The corpse was lying on its back, dressed in black shorts and a red shirt, arms outstretched, face toward the sky.

There is no telling where the man died, or exactly when, or how. But Hurricane Dorian’s swirling, pounding floodwaters receded early last week to reveal his body sprawled amid the wreckage of a vast shantytown here in Marsh Harbour, the capital of the Abaco Islands.

On Sunday, a full week after the hurricane hit, the corpse was still where it had come to rest."

Kirk Semple reports for the New York Times September 8, 2019. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Stranded North Carolina Residents Take Stock Of Hurricane Dorian’s Damage" (AP) [3]

 

Climate Change [4]
Disasters [5]
People & Population [6]
Water & Oceans [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Central America & the Caribbean [9]
Public [10]
Source: NY Times [2], 09/09/2019
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/corpses-strewn-people-missing-week-after-dorian-hit-bahamas [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/world/americas/bahamas-dead-dorian.html [3] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hurricane-dorian-north-carolina-damage_n_5d73caa5e4b06451356ed96c [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [8] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [9] https://www.sej.org/category/region/international/central-america-caribbean [10] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81