Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Burial site sought for Louisiana storm victims
Top News Article Reuters.com: "BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Louisiana will inter in individual graves the remains of Hurricane Katrina victims who cannot be immediately identified so that families can reclaim the bodies later if forensic experts eventually determine who they are, an official said on Tuesday.
State and federal authorities have begun the grim task of collecting the remains of perhaps thousands of storm victims and have set up a morgue in St. Gabriel, about 70 miles (110 km) from New Orleans, to process the corpses.
The bodies are being kept in refrigerated trucks. Teams of forensic pathologists and experts in fingerprinting, DNA and dental identification will be able to process about 140 bodies a day. "
State and federal authorities have begun the grim task of collecting the remains of perhaps thousands of storm victims and have set up a morgue in St. Gabriel, about 70 miles (110 km) from New Orleans, to process the corpses.
The bodies are being kept in refrigerated trucks. Teams of forensic pathologists and experts in fingerprinting, DNA and dental identification will be able to process about 140 bodies a day. "
