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More than a week after Hurricane Dorian flattened the neighborhood known as the Mudd in the Abaco Islands, efforts have shifted to recovering the remains of those killed, with teams marking homes with the letter “D” for the deceased inside. nbcnews.to/34GBytZ (1/6)

“In this location we have not found any rescues, it has been all recoveries,” says Rutledge Rogers, a Florida firefighter, who was assisting with recovery efforts.

“All the intelligence that we’ve been getting is that this is the area that did get hit the hardest.” (2/6)

The number of confirmed dead rose to 50 on Monday, with 42 of those deaths occurring in the Abaco Islands, but fears remained that the number would continue to rise.

It’s unclear how many people remain missing. (3/6)

Dorian left the neighborhood unrecognizable.

Splintered wooden frames with nails jutting out in every direction were piled 6 feet high or more in areas. Giant steel shipping containers were blown in from the main road, crushing cars or lying amid the debris of houses. (4/6)

As a recovery crew worked through a destroyed house to recover a man's remains, Kenson Accius, a local, looked on in silence. nbcnews.to/34GBytZ (5/6)

Accius says the man they were carrying had been a best friend, who died alongside his wife and 2-year-old child in his home during Dorian.

“Sunday I look for him. Monday I go back to his house, I go to the back of his house. He dead. I started crying.” (6/6)

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