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Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City)
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Less than a week before the next hurricane season starts, firefighters still searching for those missing after Hurricane Katrina have found another body.
A DNA test will be needed to identify the body; the only certainty is that it was an adult male, said John Gagliano, chief coroner’s investigator in New Orleans.
It was found Saturday in the rear laundry room of a house in Mid-City, where most houses are raised several feet but floods still reached the attached mailboxes, nearly chest-high.
The house was fifth to be checked of 47 addresses given to the search team Friday, said Capt. Kenneth Kirsch of the New Orleans Fire Department.
The addresses came from the Louisiana Family Assistance Center, a state agency that has a list of 226 people missing since the 2005 hurricanes.