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A combination of pictures created on March 2, 2018 shows (up) broken palm trees and debris on the beach in front of the Mercure hotel in Marigot on the Bay of Nettle on the French Carribean island of Saint-Martin on September 6, 2017 after the passage of Hurricane Irma, and (down) the view as the Mercure hotel has re-opened and began to rebuilt with some rooms still unavailable on February 28, 2018. Six months after the passing of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September, the French overseas island of Saint-Martin is slowly rebuilding, but the scars of the most powerful hurricane ever known in the West Indies remain clearly visible, AFP reports on March 3, 2018.
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