Monster storm Dorian hovered over the Bahamas as surging seawaters and ferocious winds sowed chaos in low-lying island communities, killing at least five people and spurring mass evacuations on the US east coast.

Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis on Monday termed the hurricane a "historic tragedy" for the archipelago.

"Thus far, the Royal Bahamas Police Force has confirmed that there are five deaths in Abaco," Minnis told a news conference, referring to the islands where Dorian made landfall as a Category 5 storm on Sunday.

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These images captured by the Sentinel-3 satellite on 31 August 2019 are processed with two different band combinations (true and false colour) and show the approach of Hurricane Dorian as it moved towards the Bahamas. Dorian is a category 5 cyclone and is considered to be one of the most powerful cyclones in history.
 

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