The official death toll now stands at 44.
U.S. emergency workers on Monday found five bodies in the debris left by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, and they said they expected to find more victims a week after the devastating storm hit.
“We’ve probably hit at most one-tenth of this area, and so far we found five human remains,” said Joseph Hillhouse, assistant chief of Gainesville Fire Rescue. “I would say based off of our sample size, we’re going to see more.”After the Americans recovered bodies, Bahamian police and medical authorities moved in to conduct autopsies and fly the remains from Great Abaco Island south to the capital, Nassau.
The huge debris piles left by the storm are challenging for search and recovery teams, which cannot use bulldozers or other heavy equipment to search for the dead. That makes recovery and identification a slow process.The Bahamian government has established a hotline that people can call to report family members who have been missing since the storm.
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