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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres remains deeply concerned for the thousands impacted by Hurricane Dorian as the giant storm leaves a trail of terrible devastation in parts of the northern Bahamas in the Caribbean.The UN's relief chief Mark Lowcock travelled to the island nation on Wednesday to meet Government leaders and help expedite a life-saving aid operation.
The UN chief said in a statement that he was especially concerned for the tens of thousands of people affected in Grand Bahamas and Abaco.He offered his condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the disaster and wished a speedy recovery to those injured.
Guterres said the UN was supporting the ongoing Government-led rescue and relief efforts and was contributing assessment teams to join others deploying to the affected areas.
People who have lost everything urgently need shelter, safe drinking water, food and medicine Guterres added, calling on donors to provide emergency funding for the humanitarian response and recovery efforts, as soon as the requirements are known.
Rescuers have now begun to reach the worst hit parts of the archipelago, which consists of around 700 islands stretching across more than 100,000 square miles of ocean, after Dorian made landfall at the weekend as a Category 5 hurricane.
Aerial images show a major level of destruction on the ground, and the official death toll of eight, is expected to rise.The hurricane remained over the north-west Bahamas for one and a half days, before weakening and moving away towards the coast of Florida...Read More
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