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NEW ORLEANS — A decade after Hurricane Katrina hit this city, 30 bodies remain unidentified, according to records obtained through a public records request to the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office ...
A month after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Louisiana coast, coroners have positively identified just 32 of the nearly 800 corpses collected at a temporary morgue, officials said Wednesday.
The bodies of 65 Hurricane Katrina victims, of which just half have been identified, remain unclaimed more than a year after the storm, the Orleans Parish coroner said. News. Home Page ; ...
The bodies of many of those who died during Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast have vanished into a ... The official death toll from Katrina is approaching 1,000 as bodies are retrieved.
About 1,400 people died in Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Numbers aren't completely clear because of bodies left unidentified and those that are not accounted for. New studies reveal data on ...
The body of a Hurricane Katrina victim laid under a sheet on the front porch of her home on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005, in New Orleans. Refugees from Hurricane Katrina wait at a staging area on I-10 ...
The unclaimed bodies of close to 80 victims of Hurricane Katrina have finally been entombed - nearly three years after the storm - by a group of funeral home owners who said they took it upon ...
Finger-pointing continues in disputes over responsibility for the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Federal Emergency Management Agency officials say body retrieval has always been a state or local ...
After Hurricane Katrina, An Oklahoma national Guardsman assists workers from a FEMA contractor remove a body of a porch bench Monday, Sept. 12, 2005, in New Orleans.
As Hurricane Milton batters Tampa, Florida area, here's how the storm is alike and different from Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Bodies were still being found. So, it's this sense of eeriness. ... I think that to talk about Hurricane Katrina, you have to talk about the systemic racism, resource allocation, ...
A satellite image of Hurricane Katrina (left) on Aug. 29, 2005 and a satellite image of Hurricane Milton on Oct. 9, 2024.