The United States government is reportedly turning away some evacuees following Hurricane Dorian
Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images It’s been a week since hurricane Dorian, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded, hit the Bahamas, and the damage left in its wake is still being accounted for. Here’s what we know so far.
On Tuesday Denis McClean, a spokesperson for the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, said of the connection between more powerful hurricanes and climate change: The official number of missing people remains unknown. Officials told the New York Times on Sunday that no estimate of the number of missing people is currently available, given that Bahamian government workers continue to receive reports of missing and trapped individuals and search the storm debris for bodies.
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