45 Bodies Recovered from NO hospital

[blonndee]

1 hour, 1 minute ago

NEW ORLEANS - Forty-five bodies have been found at a hospital that was abandoned more than a week ago after it was surrounded by floodwaters unleashed by Hurricane Katrina, a state health official said Monday.

The bodies were located Sunday at Memorial Medical Center, said Bob Johannesen, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Hospitals. Johannesen said the bodies were those of patients, but he had no other information.

The Louisiana death toll rose to 279 on Monday, up from 197 on Sunday, Johannesen said.

On Sunday, reporters were kept at a distance from Memorial Medical by law enforcement officers as workers removed bodies from the hospital, situated in the city's Uptown section.

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[justiceischeap]

1. Where's that thread keeping count of the bodies? (eom)

[jmaier]

2. Why do we want to maintain a ghoulish

death watch? It seems like too many eye the death count as a means of hammering the * administration. Frankly, their lack of preparedness and weak reaction to events is cause enough without a death "bat" needed to strengthen the indictment.

The fewer headlines like this one, the better.

[bobbieinok]

3. you must have incredible faith that we will be told the truth!!!!!!