Katrina death toll: 935 LA, 221 MS

[HughMoran]

http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/WWL100105bodies.b25a8e63.html

Three bodies found in St. Bernard, death toll in Louisiana rises

09:40 PM CDT on Saturday, October 1, 2005

Associated Press

Three bodies have been found in St. Bernard Parish.

The discovery came after officials announced the death toll from Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana at 932. The three have not been confirmed as deaths from the storm.

One of the bodies was found floating outside a nursing home whose owners are charged in 34 deaths. Parish spokesman Steve Cannizaro says it's not clear whether the corpse was a resident of Saint Rita's.

Mississippi's death toll from Katrina is 221.

[preciousdove]

1. Fridays count; they didn't release any more numbers Sat or today n/t

[aquart]

2. They only find a body every week? Every three days?

How often?

[preciousdove]

3. There is no schedule given or implied...

The numbers represent bodies that are "processed". They can process at most 140 bodies a day at the one DMORT facility in LA. They just changed the DMORT staff over this week. The press had been reporting numbers daily except during Rita but nothing for two days.

They found one additional body in MS on Friday. The numbers MS is giving are way under early reports of what local first responders had bagged and called on. The bodies were picked up by Kenyon with uniformed guards and then supposedly taken either to only two central morgues one in MS and one in LA but just this week they are saying that bodies were taken to smaller local morgues too.

DMORT refers all inquiries to local authorities who refer all inquiries to DMORT. They either don't know what they are doing or are deliberately stonewalling the press, families and local authorities. Hope somebody finds out soon and stops this travesty.