Shocking before-and-after photos show the devastation Hurricane Dorian unleashed on the Bahamas as it bore down on the island country as a Category 5 storm earlier this week.

Dorian killed at least 30 people as it slammed the country with sustained winds of 185 mph — but authorities have said the death toll is expected to rise even further.

The Abaco Islands, in the northern part of the country, took the brunt of the storm. The towns and islands of New Plymouth, Marsh Harbour, and Green Turtle Cay were flattened, with homes reduced to debris, the images show.

“You can’t stay here,” Sharona Etienne-Cole of Great Abaco told NPR Friday. “There’s a lot of contamination in the water … a lot of dead bodies and sewage, and the electrical company is wiped out. The banks are gone. It’s no use staying here.”

The Leonard Thompson International Airport in Marsh Harbour also appears to have been crushed by the hurricane, a post-storm aerial view shows.

Another heart-wrenching image from the storm shows two women dragging their belongings through thick, muddy waters. Others show residents standing helplessly next to their ravished homes. In yet another, one home is shown standing intact as everything else around it is destroyed.

The Coast Guard said Thursday that it rescued more than 200 people since the storm began, but hundreds still remain missing.

In one horror story earlier this week, 38-year-old dad Adrian Farrington watched as his 5-year-old son AJ was swept up into the shark-infested storm surge. He also watched the surge send the roof of a church crashing down on top of about a dozen people.

Now, authorities must provide survivors like Farrington with long-term mental health support, Marvin Dames, the Bahamas’ minister of national security, said on NPR’s “Here & Now” program.

“When folks come to the reality that they no longer have a roof over their head or a loved one who’s gone, never to return again, it’s really tough,” Dames said. “So these places will certainly need a tremendous amount of support, and we’re working to provide avenues for that to happen.”