'People are shooting each other for food and water': Bahamas Hurricane Dorian death toll will be 'staggering' with THOUSANDS still missing as bodies pile up and militias are formed to stop looting
Daily Mail
September 6, 2019
Bahamian officials have warned the Hurricane Dorian death toll could be 'staggering' as hundreds and possibly thousands are believed to still be missing from the Abaco and Grand Bahama islands.
The government has deployed extra security to the northern islands Thursday amid reports of looting and violence.
One woman broke down in tears as she revealed: 'Everything is gone, people are starting to panic. Pillaging, looting, trying to shoot people for food and water. It's just no way everyone's going to get out.'
Witnesses have described seeing residents breaking into liquor stores and supermarkets, carrying off goods in bags or filling their vehicles.
The death count climbed to 30 on Thursday but is expected to rise today. There are reports of piles of corpses.
A father has spoken of the horror of watching the battering winds of the hurricane sweep his son away after he put him on a roof to escape a shark in the surrounding flood waters. 'I still could remember him reaching for me and calling, "Daddy," ' said Adrian Farrington, 38, of Murphy Town on the island of Abaco. He was speaking about the moment his five-year-old son called out to him as the winds thrashed him away. He had thought his son would be safer out of the water.
It became clear yesterday that the Bahamas is facing a humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Dorian as up to 70,000 people are in need of 'life-saving assistance'.
A massive international relief effort was ramped up as the extent of the damage wrought by Dorian came into focus through satellite images and harrowing accounts from survivors.
Evacuation efforts were underway at the partly flooded Leonard M. Thompson airport on Abaco island as small planes picked up the most vulnerable survivors, including the sick and the elderly.
The evacuation was slow and there was frustration for some who said they had nowhere to go after the Category 5 hurricane splintered whole neighborhoods.
4 comments:
I thought there were some pretty heavy duty gun restrictions there.
Sort of like New Jersey. Not one large capacity magazine turned into LE since the law was changed.
That's because the people of NJ are very mellow and never had any in the first place. (Or not.)
Vinnie, Salvatore' and Guido say fuck'em! No really deep down they really like the large magazine ban. Cause laws are for other people. Not outlaws.
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