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Originally posted by Rodeo
Before the last people were evacuated that Saturday, several bodies were dumped near a door, and two or three babies died of dehydration, emergency medics have said. State officials said yesterday that 24 people died either inside or just outside the convention center.
The state officials said they did not have any information about how many of those deaths may have been murders. Capt. Winn said that when his team made a final sweep of the building last Monday, it found three bodies, including one with multiple stab wounds.
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FEMA has blacked out news and (for a time) prevented photographing the dead). But the convention center appears to have been a hellhole that mixed newly-released jail inmates with some of the last hotel guests -- the ones who were unable to find a way out as early as Saturday.
There are some stories about luxury hotel guests leaving in large cars & SUVs and refusing to allow other, trapped guests to ride in empty seats. It was ugly all over.
It appears the biggest failing of NO authorities was under-policing and under-provisioning the convention center.
[Edit] As the coffee kicks in, I think the other key local failing was just dumping jail inmates out on the street, late in the evacuation. Think they were al "provisioned" with food & water? I suspect they were told they were 'on their own' and the results were pretty predictable.