At destroyed airport, Bahamians tell stories of survival and death

FILE PHOTO: Women walk through the rubble in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian on the Great Abaco island town of Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, September 3, 2019. REUTERS/Dante Carrer/File Photo

TREASURE CAY, Bahamas (Reuters) - Sam Smith, 25, was on her way to what was left of the local grocery store on the decimated Bahamian island of Great Abaco when she saw her first dead body.

After Hurricane Dorian destroyed her home in Central Pines, she needed food for her two-year-old daughter. She didn't want to steal, but the store had been levelled, and looters were already ransacking it, so she figured she would see what she could find.