Washington: The death toll from last week’s Hurricane Michael, that battered the Florida Panhandle, has been raised to 29, with rescuers still searching for the missing in the hardest-hit areas.
The toll was raised on Tuesday and the casualties were reported from Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Of those, 12 were in Florida’s Bay County, one of the hardest-hit regions where the hurricane made landfall last week as a Category 4 storm, CNN reported.
Aerial photos taken after the hurricane showed flatten houses stretched miles along the beach.
Authorities fear some people who did not evacuate could be buried beneath piles of concrete, wood and mangled metal in Florida.
About 1,200 people were in shelters. Analysts have put the total loss inflicted by Hurricane Michael to be between $15 and 21 billion. (IANS)
