Katrina death perhaps hundreds, looting breaks

The dead of Hurricane Katrina has torn parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama this week, perhaps in the hundreds of rescue efforts and looting erupted, the statement exit gates.

Water in New Orleans were still rising, because there are about three offences in the city system of dikes, authorities were unable to solve, “said Sergeant Frank Coates, a spokesman for the Louisiana State Police in Baton Rouge, in a telephone interview this morning.

In parts of the city, which are not covered by the floodwaters of people began looting and foodstuffs and clothing stores to register a gun, “said Nigel Coates. Authorities in the region of New Orleans announced the dawning of a dawn departure of flights to stop, “he said.

“ We try to help where we can arrest every crime, of course, but still stranded on the roofs of people on their security is a priority,’’said Nigel Coates.

Some corpses were floating in New Orleans and fired water to avoid health risks, “said Nigel Coates. There was no official toll for the territory yet, “he said.

Authorities were still rescuing people and roofs have been preparations for the evacuation of no less than 15000 people had sought refuge from the hurricane in the Superdome in Louisiana, because there were problems, the structure and a hole in the roof, “said Nigel Coates.

There were reports of riots in the arena, as bad people stand on the seats, “said Nigel Coates.

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“ People do not know if their origin is always there when she came out,’’said Nigel Coates. “ It is clear that they are in need and tensions rise up.”

The Superdome’s bathrooms are dirty, kitsch barrel overflowed and the air conditioning off since power stopped, if the storm was August 29, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Désespéré by air, dozens of refugees were sleeping on the sidewalk around the dome, said AP.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued thousands yesterday in New Orleans, remained in the water on the floods so deep as 20 feet (6 meters), said the Agency on its website.

At least 50 people died in Harrison County, Mississippi, of which no less than 30 in a residential building collapsed in Biloxi, Mississippi Emergency Management spokesman Jim Pollard said in an interview yesterday.

Show Devastation

Television images showed complete desolation in the cities of Gulfport and Biloxi on the Mississippi coast. There is virtually no buildings in Gulfport, which are not “ substantially damaged,’’said Pollard.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, the dead as high as 80 in Harrison County, in an interview on NBC “ Today’s zeigen”gestern, while the New York Times, quoting an official emergency management, reported that 100 were killed.

More than 1.4 million customers were without electricity in Louisiana late yesterday in Florida Panhandle, against more than 2.1 million early in the day, according to estimates by Entergy Corp., Cleco Corp. and Southern Co., the parent company by distribution companies in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The estimates were in the reports on websites.

A 200-foot long journey dam in New Orleans overflowed, flooding several roads, spokesman of the State Police Trooper Markus Smith said in a telephone interview yesterday. More than 80 percent of New Orleans was under water, Governor Kathleen Blanco said in a press conference yesterday on television.

The American Red Cross is housing 70000 people in 230 emergency shelters, said spokeswoman Laura Howe. The shelters provide food, water and toilet articles for people forced from their homes by the hurricane.

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