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Read moreHurricane Dorian
By Dhruti Shah
BBC News
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Video caption: Hurricane Dorian: Search teams scour Bahamas wreckage for victims Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Dorian, search operations continue to find the dead.
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Video caption: Hurricane Dorian: Bahamian residents evacuated on cruise ships Footage suggests some Bahamian evacuees without US visas were asked to disembark a ferry heading to Florida.
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Video caption: Hurricane Dorian: Residents trying to leave the Abaco Islands The BBC met residents of the Abaco Islands attempting to leave the Bahamas by boat or plane.
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Video caption: Hurricane Dorian survivor: Plenty of people dead Survivors from the hardest-hit areas in the Bahamas describe the devastation left by the hurricane.
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Video caption: Hurricane Dorian heads towards Nova Scotia. The powerful storm is moving north along the east coast of the United States into Canada, bringing dangerous storm surges, torrential rain and damaging winds.
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Video caption: 'We are going to die together here' The BBC's Aleem Maqbool sees the carnage left by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas.