Incredible before and after images reveal Hurricane Dorian's destruction in the Bahamas

Jim Sergent, USA TODAY

The death toll in the Bahamas has grown to 30 and is expected to increase after Hurricane Dorian's devastating Category 5 strike on the archipelago nation.

The Bahamian government has sent hundreds of police and marines into the stricken islands, along with doctors, nurses and other health care workers. The U.S. Coast Guard, Britain’s Royal Navy and relief organizations, including the United Nations and the Red Cross, joined the growing effort to rush food and medicine to survivors and lift the most desperate people to safety by helicopter.

The first images of the storm's damage to the country's many islands have been heartbreaking.

Here we've collected some of the USA TODAY Network's photography along with five satellite images from Maxar that compare Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island on Oct. 25, 2018, with Thursday morning.

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A Hurricane Dorian survivor walks past a beached powerboat in Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island, in the Bahamas on Sept. 5, 2019.
A Hurricane Dorian survivor walks past a beached powerboat in Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island, in the Bahamas on Sept. 5, 2019.

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The Associated Press also paired a photograph shot Wednesday by Gonzalo Gaudenz with a satellite image from ESRI to show the destruction in Marsh Harbor.

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Joey Garrison and Trevor Hughes contributed to this report.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Hurricane Dorian damage: Pictures of Bahamas before and after storm