*According to Jeffrey Poitier, the nephew of screen star and Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier, says 23 or more members of his family are missing in The Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian
Poitier told the Daily Mail that (as of Thursday) there had been no contact from missing relatives including his sister Barbara and his adult children in Freeport, Bahamas.
“We are still looking for and waiting for them to appear soon. It has us all worried.
“We are trying to reach out to them using every means available to us but we are not hearing anything. We are deeply worried,” said Poitier, 66.
So far, the official death toll caused by Hurricane Dorian is at least 46 people. It hit the Bahamas last Sunday as a Category 5 storm with winds as fast as 185mph.
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As of this posting, estimates show that 70,000 people or more are in need of “life-saving assistance” while Great Abaco is said to be virtually uninhabitable, with bodies piled up and witnesses saying there is a “smell of death” with corpses floating in the water, reports the Daily Mail.
Here’s more from the Outlet
More than 500 Bahamians belong to the extended family of Sidney Poitier, the acclaimed actor who was born in Miami to Bahamian parents and who grew up in the Bahamas, according to Jeffrey Poitier.
Hurricane Dorian made landfall in the islands last Sunday. It caused mass destruction turning houses into matchsticks and damaging airports and a public hospital.
Jeffery Poitier, who is also an actor and who splits his time between New Orleans and Cat Island in the Bahamas, said that he had tried calling his sister repeatedly without an answer.
He hoped to fly to the Freeport area by helicopter later today to search for her himself.
‘It’s been very discouraging, very disappointing and very stressful for all of us here in the Americas. It is not easy having to wait for news to find out what happened to your family. I am very worried,’ he said.
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