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September 12, 2005 Deceased Victims 9-12-2005Updated Number of Deceased Victims Resulting from Hurricane Katrina
BATON ROUGE, -
- At this time, state officials, working in conjunction with coroners from local parishes have confirmed 279 deaths.
- These numbers have been reported to state officials by local coroners.
- A breakdown of these deaths is as follows:
242 are at the morgue in St. Gabriel,
Parish Coroners: St. Charles – 3, Jefferson Parish – 25, St. Tammany Parish – 6, Iberia Parish – 3.
- Any death that is determined to have been caused as a result of Hurricane Katrina will be counted as a hurricane-related death. For example, this applies to people who drowned as well as people who required life-support but had it cut off and died as a result when power was lost during the storm.