Reports says two thousand five hundred people were reported missing in Bahamas in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, with the death toll expected to rise.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) spokesman, Carl Smith, said list, based on missing person’s reports, had not been checked against government records of people evacuated or staying in shelters.
Bahamian Prime Minister, Hubert Minnis warned that while the official death toll stood at fifty the number of deaths is expected to significantly increase adding that they are stepping up efforts to evacuate those who died in the storm, describing Dorian as a historic tragedy.
The Prime Minister said that more than five thousand five hundred people had been evacuated to the island of New Providence to date, adding that commercial carriers will be allowed to resume flights to Abaco starting from today on a limited basis.
According to the report the storm, which made its first landfall on the Caribbean archipelago on first September, leveled entire neighbourhoods, with Grand Bahama and Abaco Islands worst hit.
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