Hurricane Dorian causes 'extreme destruction' and leaves 'bodies floating in the Bahamas' as second strongest storm in HISTORY crawls across the islands with 225mph gusts - as storm surges hit the Florida coast where millions have been ordered to evacuate
Hurricane Dorian stalled over the Bahamas today, downgrading from a Category 5 to a Category 4
The vicious storm is moving westwards at just 1mph and is battering the Bahamas with winds over 150mph
On Sunday into Monday there were gusts of up to 225mph and up to 30 inches of rain in the Bahamas
Monday morning Bahamian officials confirmed reports of causalities but have not released an official count
An eight-year-old boy is believed to have drowned amid reports of 'bodies being seen'
Hundreds
of thousands of people are being evacuated on the U.S. coast although
the storm is not currently expected to hit land there
Video
posted to social media by residents of Abaco in the Bahamas shows homes
missing parts of their roofs, utility lines down and cars overturned
'You
cannot tell the difference as to the beginning of the street versus
where the ocean begins,' Bahamanian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said
Monday afternoon storm is located 30 miles northeast of Freeport, 110miles east of West Palm Beach, Florida
Dorian is will get 'dangerously' close to South Florida tonight as its winds and surges are reaching coast
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