Soldiers Taking Over Streets As Violent Chaos Erupts From Desperate Residents Who Stayed Behind
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Date: 2017-09-10

Soldiers Taking Over Streets As Violent Chaos Erupts From Desperate Residents Who Stayed Behind
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Natural disasters don’t exactly bring out the best in people. But sometimes they do bring people together. However, stories indicate they haven’t exactly brought out the best in people who have been adversely affected by the hurricanes in the Caribbean islands. Somewhat similar to what people did during Hurricane Katrina over ten years ago.

The Daily Mail reported the following,

“Worrying reports of erupting violence have emerged from St Maarten, the southern half of the Caribbean Island it shares with St Martin, in the wake of Hurricane Irma.

issued a desperate plea for help on Facebook.’The situation in SXM is a HELL! NO WATER NO FOOD NO ELECTRICITY NO At the Simpson Bay Resort and Marina, looters went in to unoccupied rooms to steal TVs, one staff member said on Twitter.Look here at some of the pictures from the hurricane.‘A small minority of sxm-er’s were looting our unoccupied rooms until the Dutch military arrived. Not essentials – taking TV’s,’ he said. The same man said a bank was robbed the next day. Laura Conroy’s family were stranded on the island and are now awaiting rescue from US military planes. They are taking American citizens to the more developed Puerto Rico.
She said that through the intermittent contact she has had with her sister, she learned that looting was a problem. ‘Many US citizens are being attacked and robbed,’ she told DailyMail.com.

Dutch side of the island say people are roaming the streets armed with ‘revolvers and machetes’ while Rutte said most people are surviving without power and running water. Extra troops and police are arriving on the southern part of the island, which is shared between France and the Netherlands, and part of their job is to help keep order, officials said.

Up to 95 per cent of the island was destroyed as the hurricane pummeled its shores on Wednesday. The badly damaged airport and port have no the Caribbean.

‘The military has two tasks after arriving there. Firstly to ensure that there is food and water, but also to ensure security,’ Rutte said.

‘There are people on the streets armed with revolvers and machetes,’ one witness told the Dutch newspaper AD on Friday. ‘The situation is very serious. No one is in charge.’Dutch officials have confirmed that one person was killed on the Dutch part of Saint Martin by the Category Five storm, before it was downgraded early Friday to a four as it barrelled towards Cuba and Florida. Earlier today it emerged that Dutch King Willem-Alexander will fly to the Caribbean to inspect the coordination of relief efforts.

The Royal House announced the visit Friday, saying the monarch will assess in Curacao ‘whether and when it is possible to visit St. Maarten’ and nearby Dutch islands Saba and St. Eustatius, which  of St. Martin, has been autonomous since 2010, but remains part of the Dutch commonwealth.

Prime Minister powerful storm and looting has been reported by local authorities struggling to keep control of the island. He said the first plane already has landed at the airport in the capital, Philipsburg, and navy vessels have unloaded vital supplies in a race against time before the next storm arrives.
man describes chaos as armed looters smash into stores.