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'Rapidly Deteriorating' Conditions Plague Storm-Battered Bahamas

Reuters

   NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Thousands of displaced people are living in "rapidly
   deteriorating" conditions in the worst-hit parts of the Bahamas six
   days after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, the U.N. World Food Program
   warned Saturday.
   The warning came as aid groups rushed emergency aid to the
   storm-ravaged islands and officials warned that an official death toll
   of 43 was likely to spike as the number of missing among the
   archipelago nation's 400,000 residents becameclear.
   Even as the aid ships and aircraft headed in, thousands fled the
   devastation, some abandoning hard-hit Great Abaco Island to seek safety
   in the capital, Nassau, and others heading toFlorida for shelter,
   supplies and perhaps jobs.
   Ninetypercent of the homes, buildings and infrastructure in
   MarshHarbour, where Dorian rampaged for almost two full days as one of
   the strongest Caribbean hurricanes on record, weredamaged, the WFPsaid.
   It noted that thousands of people were living in a government building,
   a medical center and an Anglican church that survived the storms, but
   had littleto no access to water, power and sanitary facilities.

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