Posted on 12/05/2005 3:11:20 AM PST by prisoner6
(St.Gabriel, LA) - Analysis of the people killed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita shows a nearly even split along racial and gender lines. Medical examiners say of the more than one thousand victims, about half are white and half are black. About half are men and about half are women. In all , the morgue set up to process bodies after the hurricane has recorded one-thousand-90 deaths. Of those, less than 500 have been returned to their next of kin. Officials are still finding bodies.
That makes the 50/50 count seem more likely.
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