The authorities anticipate that they are of more deceased people.
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(CNN) - The death toll from Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas has increased to 50 victims, according to a statement from the Bahamas Police Commissioner on Monday.
Forty-two bodies have been recovered from the island of Abaco and eight from Grand Bahama.
"We anticipate the discovery of more deceased people, as the search and recovery process progresses," the statement said.
1 of 11 | The devastation caused by Hurricane Dorian in Grand Bahama was captured by photographer Antonio José Soto during an overflight through the affected areas. (Courtesy Antonio José Soto)
2 of 11 | The images show the devastation left especially in Grand Bahama, where many houses and even entire neighborhoods were left in rubble. (Courtesy Antonio José Soto)
3 of 11 | The images and stories of devastation in communities like these are just beginning to appear. (Courtesy Antonio José Soto)
4 of 11 | It is not clear how many people died or how many people fled before the storm. The remaining residents say they are still waiting for assistance. (Courtesy Antonio José Soto)
5 of 11 | Dorian made landfall on Saturday as a category 5 hurricane, the strongest recorded that has hit the Bahamas. He eliminated entire neighborhoods on the northern islands of Grand Bahama and Abacos, then took days, hitting the same battered places over and over again. (Courtesy Antonio José Soto)
6 of 11 | The only international airport on the island of Grand Bahama was devastated by Dorian and for several days could not serve as a stage for medical evacuations or emergency relief deliveries. (Courtesy Antonio José Soto)
7 of 11 | At the beginning of the week, the runway had been full of rubble, with the remains of a small passenger plane thrown inside the domestic terminal. (Courtesy Antonio José Soto)
8 of 11 | Freeport airport was inaccessible earlier this week when Dorian hit northern Bahamas. The waves licked the windows of the domestic terminal, showed videos on social networks. (Courtesy Antonio José Soto)
9 of 11 | In Freeport, a city of approximately 43,000 people, life is not yet close to returning to normal. (Courtesy Antonio José Soto)
10 of 11 | The debris covers the track and the interior of the domestic terminal, leaving wires hanging from the ceiling. Small planes were broken and twisted, almost unrecognizable, after being thrown by the winds and floods of Hurricane Dorian. (Courtesy Antonio José Soto)
11 of 11 | Before the cyclone, more than 70,000 of the approximately 400,000 residents of the Bahamas lived on the Grand Bahama and Abaco islands. (Courtesy Antonio José Soto) Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian
