Miss. Struggles to Deal With Dead Bodies

[riverwalker]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050902/ap_on_re_us/katrina_dealing_with_the_dead_hk2

By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 5 minutes ago



PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Crews are driving around coastal Mississippi, picking up bodies left on sidewalks like garbage and depositing them in refrigerated mobile morgues. Coroners are conducting autopsies in parking lots because the only available light is from the sun.

Most Hurricane Katrina relief efforts are focused on the living, many of whom are struggling to get enough food, water, shelter, power and medical attention. The dead are a lower priority, and many bodies have been putrefying since the water receded Monday.

The official death toll was 126 and rising Thursday as search-and-rescue teams and dogs go through the ruins of neighborhoods washed away by the huge storm surge.

Most of the bodies in Jackson County — where the beach towns of Pascagoula, Gautier and Ocean Springs were swamped — have been taken to the Heritage Funeral Home in Moss Point. The business has no water, power or phone service, making the job of storing and identifying the dead difficult for Coroner Vicki Broadus and a forensic pathologist working with her.
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[leftchick]

1. FEMAs Baghdad Brown says this is not true

lying liberal press, :puke:

[aquart]

2. 126 bodies is nasty but not impossible.

Gonna be more.

[LisaL]

3. Of course there are more.

[MnFats]

4. Lots more, I'm afraid.

Some of the bodies are rising to the surface now due to putrefaction....surprised it took that long, given the heat..

[Canuckistanian]

5. Let's see a CSI show about THIS

This is what REAL coroners do for a living....

[riverwalker]

6. doing autopsies in a parking lot

We all know the cause of death:
criminal negligence.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. I saw a report last night of 185 dead in Mississippi so far.