Death toll in Hawaii wildfire rises to 89

iNDICA NEWS BUREAU–

The death toll in the devastating hurricane-driven wildfires in US state of Hawaii’s Maui Island rose to 89, a government official said on Saturday.

According to Hawaii Governor Josh Green, the death toll was 80 on Saturday morning, the local media had reported.

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The latest death toll of 89 has made the wildfire the deadliest one in more than a century in modern US history, surpassing the Camp Fire that erupted on November 8, 2018 in California and killed at least 85 people.

Green warned at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon that the number will continue to rise as “hard work is going on.”

Deadly wildfires have nearly completely destroyed the historic town of Lahaina, a popular tourist spot and once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

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