Death toll in La. climbs past 400

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

NEW ORLEANS -- Hurricane Katrina's death toll in Louisiana jumped by more than half Tuesday to 423 as recovery workers turned more of their attention to gathering up and counting the corpses in a city all but emptied out of the living.

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