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Monday 16 SepteMber 2019

Cleanup resumes in Bahamas as Humberto swirls away

MCLEAN'S TOWN, Baha- maximum sustained winds piled high as Bahamians
mas (AP) — Jeffrey Roberts of 60 mph (97 kph). attempted to continue sal-
lifted a mustard-yellow cur- Weather forecasters said vaging what was left be-
tain from the ground as he it would likely become a hind.
looked for passports and hurricane by Sunday night, On Saturday, Patrice Higgs
other documents at the but would remain far from stood barefoot in her back-
site where his family's home the Bahamas and the U.S. yard with grey mud caked
once stood in Grand Ba- coast by the time it had in- on her feet. She stared list-
hama. tensified to that strength. lessly at the horizon as she
He then moved the cloth The storm briefly shuttered occasionally pointed at
aside, picked up a pair of a couple of small airports, some of her belongings
old, rusty pliers, and contin- sent people in damaged that remained tangled
ued his search. homes to seek shelter and in the debris and out of
"We got to take what God threatened to interrupt the reach, including a cream-
gives us," Roberts said in distribution of sorely need- Mos Antenor, 42, drives a bulldozer while clearing the road af- colored loveseat.?
reference to Tropical Storm ed supplies including food ter Hurricane Dorian Mclean's Town, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, She confided that she lost
Humberto, which narrowly and water. Friday Sept. 13, 2019. five relatives to Dorian.
missed the island over the As the storm barely passed Associated Press "My sister, my niece, my
weekend as it continued the northern Bahamas, nephew, my aunty and my
on its northward trajectory however, Roberts and oth- of Great Abaco to support devastation." cousin," she said, as dark
well offshore of Florida's ers were already returning humanitarian efforts in the The death toll from the hur- clouds threatening rain still
east coast. to the task at hand: resum- wake of the storm, which ricane stands at 50 and the hung overhead.
By early Sunday morning, ing their cleanup and re- left thousands in need of number of missing at an The couple then took a
the U.S. National Hurricane covery efforts in commu- food, water and shelter. alarming 1,300 people, al- break and sat outside as
Center said the storm was nities devastated by Hur- "Hurricane Dorian has been though officials caution the they watched a neigh-
located about 137 miles ricane Dorian two weeks classified as Category 5. list is preliminary and many bor, Cecil Leathen, pry
(220 kilometers) north of ago. I think it's Category Hell," people could just be un- his boat out of fallen trees
Great Abaco Island and On Saturday, U.N. Sec- said the secretary-general, able to connect with loved with the help of a backhoe
was moving at 7 mph (11 retary-General António adding he was horrified ones. operated by yet another
kph) north-northwest with Guterres visited the island by the "level of systematic Meanwhile, detritus was neighbor.q
Courts free more suspects in case of disappeared students

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Courts punity." Jesús Murillo Karam, attor-
have freed another 24 It shows "the misery, the rot ney general under Presi-
people implicated in one in which the justice system dent Enrique Peña Nieto,
of the country's most noto- of our country finds itself," infamously announced the
rious crimes, the disappear- he said. "historic truth" about the
ance of 43 students, a fed- Seventy-seven of the 142 students' disappearance
eral official said Sunday. people arrested in the case — that they were killed and
Deputy Interior Secretary have now been freed. No- their bodies incinerated at
Alejandro Encinas told a body has yet been con- a garbage dump.
news conference that the victed. Authorities say leftist But independent experts
detainees were freed the students from the Ayotzina- said there was no evi-
previous evening after pa teacher's school were dence to support the con-
courts found various viola- abducted by police in the clusion that the bodies had
tions of due process in their Guerrero state town of been burned there and a
cases, including torture Iguala in September 2014 team backed by the Orga-
Parents of some of the 43 missing teacher's college students sit and arbitrary detention. and handed over to the nization of American States
behind posters depicting their missing loved ones, during a press
conference following a private meeting they had with President He also criticized the deci- drug gang Guerreros Uni- said Mexican investigators
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in Mexico City, Wednesday, sion, calling it a "mockery of dos headed by Gildardo had overlooked other pos-
Sept. 11, 2019. justice" which encouraged López Astudillo, who was sibilities, including military
Associated Press "silence, complicity and im- freed earlier this month. involvement.q