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People still dying at the Convention Center in New Orleans

Sat Sep 03, 2005 at 05:01:57 PM PDT

From "New Orleans Left to the Dead and Dying," By ALLEN G. BREED, Sep 3, 7:07 PM (ET), AP

No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane Katrina's floods and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating among the ruined city, crumpled on wheelchairs, abandoned on highways.

And the dying goes on - at the convention center and an airport triage center, where bodies were kept in a refrigerated truck.

Why don't they get everyone at the convention center to another town already?

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