Another storm threatens the Bahamas, where 1,300 people are missing – News

A new storm threatens to hit the Bahamas on Friday, where there are still 1,300 missing after the pbadage of Hurricane Dorian ten days ago.

The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) has reported that it is very likely that a tropical storm warning will occur that would affect central and northwestern Bahamas and Florida with strong winds and torrential rain Friday and Saturday.

The depression, located Friday between 0 and 380 km southeast of the Abaco Islands, has a 80% chance of becoming a tropical storm in the next 48 hours, announced the NHC.

In the northwest of the Caribbean archipelago, devastated by the pbading of Category 5 hurricane Dorian, the authorities were looking for 1,300 people on Thursday, according to the emergency services. The day before, the number of missing persons was 2,500.

This drastic drop is due to the fact that the list of people reported missing by their relatives and that of victims housed in emergency centers have been collected, said the spokesman of the agency. emergency of the Bahamas.

The official toll of victims remains at 50, said the police chief of the Anthony Ferguson archipelago.

In any case, the number of deaths must increase, warned Mr. Ferguson, who asked the population to be patient with the slowness of research tasks.

"Hundreds of dead"

"According to the information that I have received and my experience, there are hundreds of deaths," said Wednesday the former Bahamian prime minister, Hubert Ingraham, to the Nbadau Guardian newspaper.

Some 2,000 people were still living in shelters on the island of New Providence and another 150 in Grand Bahama. The flow of evacuees to Abacus is over, said the spokesman for the emergency services.

The spokesman also said that the deportations of illegal immigrants victims of the hurricane, the vast majority of Haitians, had been suspended.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is expected to travel to the Bahamas on Friday and Saturday to show the "deep solidarity" of the international organization to the victims of the "terrible hurricane".

The international community must "increase its support for the people of the Bahamas and its government," Guterres said.

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The UN chief urged world leaders to be more ambitious in the fight against climate change and gave as an example the devastation of the Bahamas, floods in Mozambique, desertification in the Sahel, fires in the Amazon, the melting of ice in the Arctic and the destruction of corals.

"All this confirms what we all said recently: climate change is faster than us and we need to take a much more ambitious approach" to overcome this phenomenon, he said.

During his visit to the Bahamas, the Secretary-General will meet Prime Minister Hubert Minnis and other officials in Nbadau. He will also visit the victims of the hurricane and the humanitarian teams that help them, said the UN in a statement.

The Bahamas consulate in Washington and several humanitarian organizations have asked for generosity to help the victims and have asked for it to be through cash donations to bank accounts specially opened by the Bahamas government or serious oenegates, rather than cash donations. species that do not necessarily correspond to the needs of those affected.