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NEW ORLEANS, Sept 2: The authorities in Louisiana state on Friday deployed 7,000 soldiers, including 300 Iraq-hardened ones, to New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders as the city fell deeper into chaos with gangs roaming the streets and corpses rotting in the sun a full four days after Hurricane Katrina lashed the US Gulf coast, exposing the government’s aid efforts as a failure.
According to a US senator, as many as 10,000 people may have died in Louisiana state alone, home to New Orleans.—Reuters
