Nursing home bodies removed
8th Sep 2005, 16:34 GMT
In a grim indicator of what may lie ahead, authorities are removing the bodies of more than 30 people from a flooded nursing home in a suburban New Orleans parish. The official death toll from Hurricane Katrina is 294, but that number is expected to rise dramatically.
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