Almost a week after devastating Bahamas, where he left at least 43 dead, Dorian caused "havoc" in Canada, with winds violent and floods in coastal areas, without fatalities being reported.
Dorian entered Canadian lands on Saturday near Halifax degraded by the local center of hurricanes to "very intense postropical cyclone" with winds of up to 140 km / h, before returning to the sea on Sunday.
According to the authorities, more than 500,000 homes had no electricity along the coast in the provinces of New Scotland, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
While Canada faced the storm, the Bahamians who lost everything after the devastating passage hurricane Dorian they tried escape of the most affected islands, where the top-level storm left at leasts 43 dead, a figure that the authorities expect to increase "significantly" and "numerous missing."
Airplanes, helicopters and ships, both private and governmental, and even cruises, converged on the terribly battered Abaco islands to help with bowel movements both towards the Bahamian capital of Nassau like U.S.
The facilities of the small airport of Marsh Harbor, in the abacus island, suffered the wrath of winds of up to 250 km / h of Dorian, then category 5, the highest. Several hangars were collapsed by the hurricane, although the landing strip was usable and hundreds of people were able to embark towards Nassau.
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"It's been almost a week and people don't have food or water. There are still corpses around here, it’s not healthy to stay, ”said a young family mother, Chamika Durosier, who left the airport running away from the bad smell of the toilets, where the chain cannot be pulled by lack of water.
"Some have been sleeping here for three or four days, the number of seats is limited on airplanes," says Durosier, who is still injured after the roof of her house fell on her and her daughter by force of Dorian .
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