After inflicting 'extreme damage' on Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian on path to Florida

Hurricane Dorian has left much of tourism-dependent Bahamas in ruins and relief officials yesterday were preparing for an unfolding humanitarian crisis with the scale of the catastrophe only beginning to emerge.

Aerial video recorded over the Bahamas’ Great Abaco Island showed mile upon mile of flooded neighbourhoods, pulverised buildings, upturned boats and shipping containers scattered like Lego toys. Many buildings that had not been flattened had walls or roofs partly ripped away.