RAF, ICRC deliver aid in Hurricane Dorian-hit Bahamas

The British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Mounts Bay distributed Department for International Development (DFID) relief items on Thursday, including vital shelter kits to some of those worst hit by the category five storm. They have also used a rigid-hulled inflatable boat to join up with the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and unload vital aid.

Abaco:Various aid vessels were being unloaded in The Bahamas Thursday in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.

At the start of the week, Dorian slammed the Bahamas with 185 mph (295 kph) winds, killing at least 30 people and obliterating countless homes.

The British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Mounts Bay distributed Department for International Development (DFID) relief items on Thursday, including vital shelter kits to some of those worst hit by the category five storm.

They have also used a rigid-hulled inflatable boat to join up with the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and unload vital aid.

The ship has been in the Caribbean since June in preparation for the hurricane season and was re-tasked last week to sail to The Bahamas in anticipation of Hurricane Dorian, the strongest ever recorded in The Bahamas.

Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross was distributing relief for hundreds of families in Abaco - the island worst affected by Hurricane Dorian - and Nassau.

The hurricane hit Abaco on Sunday and then hovered over Grand Bahama for a day and a half.

Additional flights carrying relief material are expected this weekend.

After sweeping past Florida in the United States at a relatively safe distance and grazing Georgia, Dorian has continued along the South Carolina-North Carolina coastline but is now expected to move away from the coast.