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Photos: Dorian slams Bahamas with record-setting force, eyes Florida

At least five people died and 21 injured people were airlifted to the capital by the U.S. Coast Guard after Hurricane Dorian hit the northwest Bahamas, flooding the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama with walls of water that lapped into the second floors of buildings, trapped people in attics and drowned the Grand Bahama airport under 6 feet of water. The authorities in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have also ordered some mandatory evacuations.

Updated on: Sep 03, 2019 2:40 PM IST

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People walk along the Boardwalk Run as Hurricane Dorian continues to make its way toward the Florida coast in Stuart, Florida. Hundreds of thousands of people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were ordered to evacuate before the storm rolls up the Eastern Seaboard, bringing the possibility of life-threatening storm-surge flooding even if the storm’s heart stays offshore, as forecast. Several large airports announced closures and many flights were cancelled for Monday and Tuesday. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

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People walk along the Boardwalk Run as Hurricane Dorian continues to make its way toward the Florida coast in Stuart, Florida. Hundreds of thousands of people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were ordered to evacuate before the storm rolls up the Eastern Seaboard, bringing the possibility of life-threatening storm-surge flooding even if the storm’s heart stays offshore, as forecast. Several large airports announced closures and many flights were cancelled for Monday and Tuesday. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

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Houses line a flooded street after the effects of Hurricane Dorian arrived in Nassau, Bahamas. At least five people died and 21 injured people were airlifted to the capital by the U.S. Coast Guard, Bahamas officials said. “We are in the midst of a historic tragedy,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said. “The devastation is unprecedented and extensive.” (John Marc Nutt / REUTERS)

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Houses line a flooded street after the effects of Hurricane Dorian arrived in Nassau, Bahamas. At least five people died and 21 injured people were airlifted to the capital by the U.S. Coast Guard, Bahamas officials said. “We are in the midst of a historic tragedy,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said. “The devastation is unprecedented and extensive.” (John Marc Nutt / REUTERS)

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A sign displaying a message that Port Everglades, where several of the major cruise lines are docked, is closed due to Hurricane Dorian, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “This is unprecedented,” said Jeff Masters, meteorology director at Weather Underground. “We’ve never had a Category 5 stall for so long in the Atlantic hurricane record.” (Michele Eve Sandberg / AFP)

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A sign displaying a message that Port Everglades, where several of the major cruise lines are docked, is closed due to Hurricane Dorian, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “This is unprecedented,” said Jeff Masters, meteorology director at Weather Underground. “We’ve never had a Category 5 stall for so long in the Atlantic hurricane record.” (Michele Eve Sandberg / AFP)

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A man buys supplies at a Walmart in Fort Lauderdale. The U.S. Coast Guard airlifted at least 21 people injured on Abaco Island, which Dorian hit on Sunday with sustained winds of 185 mph (295 kph) and gusts up to 220 mph (355 kph), a strength matched only by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, before storms were named. (Michele Eve SANDBERG / AFP)

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A man buys supplies at a Walmart in Fort Lauderdale. The U.S. Coast Guard airlifted at least 21 people injured on Abaco Island, which Dorian hit on Sunday with sustained winds of 185 mph (295 kph) and gusts up to 220 mph (355 kph), a strength matched only by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, before storms were named. (Michele Eve SANDBERG / AFP)

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Kacy Carvajal holds her friend's daughter, as they check in to an evacuation shelter at the Vero Beach High School Freshman Learning Center. Scientists say climate change generally has been fueling more powerful and wetter storms and the only recorded storm more powerful than Dorian was Hurricane Allen in 1980, with 190 mph (305 kph) winds, though it did not make landfall at that strength. (Gerald Herbert / AP)

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Kacy Carvajal holds her friend's daughter, as they check in to an evacuation shelter at the Vero Beach High School Freshman Learning Center. Scientists say climate change generally has been fueling more powerful and wetter storms and the only recorded storm more powerful than Dorian was Hurricane Allen in 1980, with 190 mph (305 kph) winds, though it did not make landfall at that strength. (Gerald Herbert / AP)

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GOES-16 satellite image taken on September 02, shows Hurricane Dorian churning over Bahamas. Bahamian officials said they received a “tremendous” number of calls from people in flooded homes. One radio station said it received more than 2,000 distress messages, including reports of a 5-month-old baby stranded on a roof and a woman with six grandchildren who cut a hole in a roof to escape rising floodwaters. At least two designated storm shelters flooded. (NOAA / AP)

Updated on Sep 03, 2019 2:40 PM

GOES-16 satellite image taken on September 02, shows Hurricane Dorian churning over Bahamas. Bahamian officials said they received a “tremendous” number of calls from people in flooded homes. One radio station said it received more than 2,000 distress messages, including reports of a 5-month-old baby stranded on a roof and a woman with six grandchildren who cut a hole in a roof to escape rising floodwaters. At least two designated storm shelters flooded. (NOAA / AP)

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Red Cross, Indian River County EMS and Indian River Sheriff personnel assist an evacuee who needed medial attention, at an evacuation shelter. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said that the track would carry the storm “dangerously close to the Florida east coast late Tuesday through Wednesday evening and then move dangerously close to the Georgia and South Carolina coasts on Wednesday night and Thursday.” (Gerald Herbert / AP)

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Red Cross, Indian River County EMS and Indian River Sheriff personnel assist an evacuee who needed medial attention, at an evacuation shelter. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said that the track would carry the storm “dangerously close to the Florida east coast late Tuesday through Wednesday evening and then move dangerously close to the Georgia and South Carolina coasts on Wednesday night and Thursday.” (Gerald Herbert / AP)

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Check in computers are wrapped in plastic incase of leaking in the roof at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. By Tuesday morning, the storm’s top sustained winds had dipped to 120 mph (193 kph), making it a Category 3 hurricane, but it remained almost stationary. It was centered 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of Freeport — roughly the same distance from the city as at 9 a.m. Hurricane-force winds extended out as far as 45 mph (75 kilometers) in some directions. (Michele Eve Sandberg / AFP)

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Check in computers are wrapped in plastic incase of leaking in the roof at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. By Tuesday morning, the storm’s top sustained winds had dipped to 120 mph (193 kph), making it a Category 3 hurricane, but it remained almost stationary. It was centered 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of Freeport — roughly the same distance from the city as at 9 a.m. Hurricane-force winds extended out as far as 45 mph (75 kilometers) in some directions. (Michele Eve Sandberg / AFP)

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Mandatory evacuation orders for low-lying and flood-prone areas and mobile homes were in effect from Palm Beach County north to at least the Daytona Beach area, and some counties to the north issued voluntary evacuation notices. “We don’t know where it’s going to hit but we have an idea, probably a little bit different than the original course,” Trump said. “But it can change its course again and it can go back more toward Florida.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution / AP)

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Mandatory evacuation orders for low-lying and flood-prone areas and mobile homes were in effect from Palm Beach County north to at least the Daytona Beach area, and some counties to the north issued voluntary evacuation notices. “We don’t know where it’s going to hit but we have an idea, probably a little bit different than the original course,” Trump said. “But it can change its course again and it can go back more toward Florida.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution / AP)

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