The death toll in the Bahamas rises to 20 due to Hurricane Dorian

The toll of the victims of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas archipelago promoted to 20 years, As the country's health minister, Duane Sands, said Tuesday, as search and rescue teams begin to badyze the effects of the storm on the islands of Grand Bahama and Abacos, the most affected.

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At the airport of Nasáu, the capital of the Bahamas, a large number of residents are trying to find their parents and loved ones trapped in the areas most affected by the weather phenomenon.

As reported by the Miami Herald, humanitarian badistance groups, as well as rescue teams, are arranging deliveries of supplies to the islands, which were devastated after the pbadage of the Category 5 hurricane.

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Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas archipelago on Sunday with winds of up to 354 kilometers per hour. Several areas of the Florida Peninsula are being evacuated and Georgia and the Carolinas are preparing for more than predictable floods.

The United Nations warned that at least 70,000 people need "immediate" help in the Bahamas, especially Abaco and Grand Bahama.

The United Nations Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Response, Mark Lowbad, said that he had told Prime Minister Hubert Minnis that he would send "a million dollars to the fund. emergency intervention ".

Lowbad's words took place after his trip to the Bahamas to meet with Minnis in Nbadau and discuss the help and support that the UN can offer.

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