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Monday 9 SepteMber 2019

Dorian lashes east Canada at hurricane force most of Sunday

By ROB GILLIES been restored. About 80%
Associated Press of Nova Scotia’s homes
TORONTO (AP) — The storm and businesses were
that already walloped the blacked out — the highest
Virgin Islands, Bahamas in the company’s history.
and North Carolina lashed Hutt said some customers
at far-eastern Canada with could remain without ser-
hurricane-force winds for vice for days.
much of Sunday, knocking On Prince Edward Island,
out power to hundreds of about 75% of homes and
thousands of people be- businesses had no electric-
fore beginning to weaken ity by Sunday afternoon,
late in the day. according to the prov-
Dorian hit near the city of ince’s Public Safety Depart-
Halifax Saturday afternoon, ment.
ripping roofs off apartment Widespread blackouts af-
buildings, toppling a huge fecting up to 80,000 NB
construction crane and up- Power customers were re-
rooting trees. ported in southern New
There were no reported Brunswick.
deaths in Canada, though By far the greatest devas-
the storm was blamed for tation caused by the storm
at least 50 elsewhere along was in the Bahamas, where
its path. Dorian struck a week ago
The U.S. National Hurricane as a Category 5 hurricane
Center said the post-tropi- A toppled building crane is draped over a new construction project after Hurricane Dorian swept with 185 mph (295 kph)
cal cyclone was centered through the area in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. winds, and then hovered
about 65 miles (100 kilome- Associated Press just offshore for more than
ters) west-southwest of St. St. Lawrence River, at 23 people in the province to electricity, clear roadways a day and a half, obliterat-
Anthony, Newfoundland, mph (37 kph). stay off the roads so crews and evacuate residents in ing thousands of homes.
in late afternoon Sunday. The track was taking take could safety remove trees flooded areas Planes, cruise ships and
Its top sustained winds the storm near or over and debris and restore Nova Scotia Power Inc. yachts were evacuating
had slipped to 65 mph northwestern Newfound- power. chief executive Karen Hutt people from the Abaco
(100 kph), below the 74 land or eastern Labrador The government said up to said over 400,000 Nova Islands and officials were
mph threshold of hurricane and then out over the North 700 Canadian troops would Scotia Power customers lost trying to reach areas still
force. It was heading to the Atlantic by evening. be fanning out across the power at the peak of the isolated by flooding and
northeast, roughly up the Nova Scotia officials asked Maritimes to help restore storm and 50,000 had since debris.q

Charity boat rescues 50 African migrants in sea off Libya

ders rescued 50 migrants multiple contact attempts city of Thessaloniki that
on Sunday from a rubber by Ocean Viking. Erdogan can’t “threaten”
dinghy off Libya’s coast A European Union plane Greece and the European
and brought them aboard from Operation Sophia Union by trying to wrest
their charity ship, Ocean overflew Ocean Viking, more money to deal with
Viking. An AP journalist the dinghy and the fish- mass migration, adding
aboard the Norwegian- ing boat multiple times that the bloc has already
flagged Ocean Viking shortly before the people provided Turkey with 6 bil-
witnessed the rescue of a were rescued. In Greece, lion euros in aid. Mitsotakis
pregnant woman, 12 mi- Prime Minister Kyriakos Mit- also criticized EU countries
nors and 37 men, all from sotakis has criticized Turk- for not doing their part to
sub-Saharan Africa. It hap- ish President Recep Tayyip accept refugees, espe-
pened about 14 nautical Erdogan for a statement cially unaccompanied
Migrants are seen waving after being found some 14 nautical
miles from the coast of Libya in Mediterranean Sea, Sunday, miles (16 statute miles) he made last week about children, saying that if they
Sept. 8, 2019. from Libya. opening the gates for Syr- couldn’t show solidarity
Associated Press Libyan authorities, respon- ian refugees to massively with fellow EU members,
By RENATA BRITO KING (AP) — Humanitarian sible for search and rescue migrate into Europe. Mitso- they should leave the
Associated Press groups SOS Mediterranee in that area of the Medi- takis said at a news confer- Schengen area of free
ABOARD THE OCEAN VI- and Doctors Without Bor- terranean, didn’t answer ence in the northern Greek peoples’ movement.q