Stench of death overwhelms medics in Bahamas (ASL – 9.22.19)

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It’s been more than two weeks since hurricane Dorian destroyed the Grand Bahamas.

US aid workers who are on the ground say the area looks like a war zone and even worse, the smell of death is overwhelming.

The official death toll is listed at 52 but thousands are still missing.

Recovery teams say they can smell the bodies even though they can’t see them.

Many bodies are most likely trapped under a mountain of rubble where houses once stood while others may have been washed away in the storm surge and their bodies are just now resurfacing on land.

Cadaver dogs have been brought in to find more bodies.

In addition to the stench of dead bodies, there is the stench of raw sewage because there is no running water.

The risk of infection is rampant.

Medics hope many of the missing residents evacuated either before or after the storm.

But they fear many are dead.

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