- Maui police: No bodies have washed ashore on Lanai after wildfires

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As of Aug. 27, Maui, Hawaii, police had reported 115 deaths as a result of recent catastrophic wildfires there. But a re

claims more victims have washed ashore on a neighboring island.

"They jumped into the bay — into the harbor area," a man says in a video the post shared Aug. 24."What they didn’t realize was that the wind was so strong it immediately began to take them out to sea, and it’s not being reported right now in the news but on the neighboring island of Lanai they found 183 bodies washed ashore."

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