Rescue workers carried out a search for bodies and survivors in the hurricane-ravaged Bahamas. The Royal Bahamas Police Force said at least 45 people died after Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas on Sept. 1, with 37 in the island Abaco and 8 on Gran Bahamas.
Meanwhile, some 70,000 people were in need of food and shelter, the WFP estimated. Private forecasters estimated that some US$3 billion in the insured property was destroyed or damaged in the Caribbean.
However, when President Donald Trump was asked whether he would consider loosening immigration rules to aid storm-stricken Bahamians, he asserted the Bahamas had “tremendous problems” with allowing “very bad people” into the country, and that he wanted to ensure those people do not make it to the United States.
Dorian was one of the most powerful Caribbean storms on record, a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 200 miles per hour. It rampaged over the Bahamas for nearly two days, becoming the worst disaster in the nation’s history.
Sources: Reuters, teleSUR.
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