For the searchers sifting through the enormous pile of wreckage that Hurricane D...
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas - For the searchers sifting through the enormous pile of wreckage that Hurricane Dorian left after smashing the Bahamian town of Marsh Harbor, the only way to get past the stench of hidden corpses is to think about the families of the dead.
The official death toll on the islands stands at 45, but evacuees, rescue workers and officials say they expect it to climb substantially as searchers find more bodies. That task is underway in the Marsh Harbor shanty towns the Mudd and the Peas. Many in the group carried tools that resembled heavy, hooked fireplace pokers, which they poke into tall piles of matted down grass and dead palm fronds and lift up cracked metal boards. They have little to follow other than their noses in the slow hunt for human remains.
“The devastation here is unbelievable,” Colon said. “I’ve been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and this looks worse, this looks like they threw a couple of bombs here, gathered up all the stuff and threw another bomb on top of it.”
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