Officials estimate that around 90 percent of the infrastructure on the Abaco Islands is damaged or destroyed.
"What I was struck by was the focused nature of the devastation," Mark Green, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, told reporters in the capital Nassau on Sunday, noting that the scene in some areas of the Abacos—a set of islands and barrier cays in the northern Bahamas—looked"almost as though a nuclear bomb was dropped."
Officials estimate that around 90 percent of the infrastructure on the Abacos is damaged or destroyed, while the United Nations' World Food Programme has said that around 70,000 people in the Bahamas—population 400,000—are in need of food and shelter. However, some residents in the Abacos have been critical of the government's response to the disaster, saying that assistance had been slow to arrive.
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