The number of deaths in the Bahamas was increased by 30 due to Hurricane Dorian: "It's a hell everywhere"

The death toll in the Bahamas due to Hurricane Dorian increased to 30, authorities said Thursday.

The Bahamas Minister of Health, Duane Sands, said to The Associated Press in a telephone interview that the figure is expected to be "significantly higher" in the coming days, while the crews continue with search and rescue missions.

Sands said the victims are from the islands of Grand Bahama and Abacus, and includes injured people who were transported by air to the island of New Providence.

In the archipelago, just 80 km off the coast of Florida, it is a bleak landscape.

Several nations joined the rescue efforts for the thousands of Dorian victims in the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama, in the north of the archipelago.

Unimaginable destruction

Dorian was blowing with category 5 intensity when he settled for almost two days over the northern Bahamas, where he left unimaginable destruction.

An AFP team that flew over the town of Marsh Harbor on Thursday saw catastrophic damage scenes, hundreds of houses destroyed to the foundations, cars overturned, entire fields of rubble and widespread flooding.

It could be seen as a team of people wearing white masks and protective suits ccorpses in green bags floated on the platform of a truck.

Some residents, still stunned by the storm, they had taken to the streets dragging their bags with their most valuable possessions.

The extent of damage in the Bahamas was beginning to be known Thursday, as the relief teams managed to tour the area to rescue survivors and bring help to the victims.

United Nations warned that some 70,000 people in the Bahamas need "immediate help."

The Deputy Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs of the UN, Mark LowcockHe said after meeting with the Bahamas Prime Minister, Hubert Minnis, that shelters, drinking water, food and medicine are urgently needed for some 50,000 people on the Grand Bahama Island and for between 15,000 and 20,000 in Great Abaco.

"It's a hell everywhere"he told AFP Brian Harvey, a Canadian who lives in Abacus.

"We need to get out of here," he added. "It's been four or five days, it's time to go."

Steven Turnquest, who arrived in Nassau from Marsh Harbor with his four and five-year-old children after overcoming the storm, told AFP that he felt fortunate to be alive.

"I see my children and I thank God, I ask him to take me, but not take them to them. I survived the hurricane by grabbing me from a door"he counted.

The storm sweeps the United States

Hurricane Dorian hit the southeastern United States on Thursday with strong winds and torrential rains in its Road to North Carolina, after having razed the Bahamas Islands.

According to the latest report of the National Hurricane Center (NHC), released at 8:00 p.m. (0:00 GMT), the eye of the hurricane, with winds reaching 160 km / h, was located about 50 km from Cape Fear, in Carolina from North.

The monstrous storm, which is classified as a category 2 hurricane, move slowly northeastward at about 17 km / h and unleashed several tornadoes in the US southeast of which no victims were reported.

(With information from AFP and AP)