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New Orleans in anarchy with fights, rapes
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-02 06:59
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday, as corpses lay
abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out and storm survivors
battled for seats on the buses that would carry them away from the chaos. The
tired and hungry seethed, saying they had been forsaken. "This is a desperate
SOS," mayor Ray Nagin said. AP reported.
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Coast Guard helicopter plucks a Hurricane Katrina survivor from a rooftop
in New Orleans, September 1, 2005. [Reuters] | "We
are out here like pure animals," the Rev. Issac Clark said outside the New
Orleans Convention Center, where he and other evacuees had been waiting for
buses for days amid the filth and the dead.
Four days after Hurricane Katrina roared in with a devastating blow that
inflicted potentially thousands of deaths, the frustration and anger mounted,
despite the promise of 1,400 National Guardsmen a day to stop the looting, plans
for a $10 billion recovery bill in Congress and a government relief effort
President Bush called the biggest in U.S. history.
New Orleans' top emergency management official called that effort a "national
disgrace" and questioned when reinforcements would actually reach the
increasingly lawless city.
About 15,000 to 20,000 people who had taken shelter at New Orleans convention
center to await buses grew increasingly hostile. Police Chief Eddie Compass said
he sent in 88 officers to quell the situation at the building, but they were
quickly driven back by an angry mob.
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