UN World Food Programme warning comes amid announcement that Dorian death toll could rise.
Thousands of displaced people are living in “rapidly deteriorating” conditions in the worst-hit parts of the Bahamas six days after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, the United Nations World Food Programme warned on Saturday.
It noted that thousands of people were living in a government building, a medical centre and an Anglican church that survived the storms, but had little to no access to water, power and sanitary facilities. A cruise ship with more than 1,000 evacuees arrived in south Florida on Saturday. Some had small children or ageing relatives who they hoped to find safe lodging for before returning to try to repair or rebuild their island homes.
At the time, Dorian was a still-powerful post-tropical cyclone with 160km/h winds, equivalent to the wind speed of a Category 2 hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said.
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