NEW ORLEANS--More bodies are found daily, weeks after search called off [View All]

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Oct. 21, 2005, 10:07PM

NEW ORLEANS
More bodies are found daily, weeks after search called off
Many discovered by residents upon returning home; toll rises to 1,053
By JENNIFER LATSON
Knight Ridder Tribune News


NEW ORLEANS - Nearly two months after Hurricane Katrina struck and more than two weeks after the official quest for bodies was abandoned, corpses of 9th Ward residents are being found every day.

The discovery of new remains shows no sign of slowing down: Workers hired by the state remove several ossified bodies each day, many of them discovered by residents returning home.

As of Wednesday, the death count from the hurricane was 1,053. That includes 20 more bodies than the total counted five days earlier, and 80 more than were discovered by Oct. 4, when the search was officially called off.
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