BBC NEWS: Dominica grieving - Life after Hurricane Maria

 "Day breaks with the anguished cries of an elderly invalid woman as a relative tends to her excruciating bedsores.
Here, in the tiny fishing village of Scott's Head in Dominica - which was slammed by the full force of catastrophic Hurricane Maria last week - basic medication is as woefully absent as food and water.
Up to Sunday, its 800 residents were yet to receive any official aid, almost a week after being flattened by the country's first category five storm in recorded history.
According to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, not a single street island-wide was spared the fury of Maria's 280km/h (175mph) winds, which islanders described as the sound of a "demented animal"..." 
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