Looters target New Orleans hospital
NEW ORLEANS | August 31, 2005 4:11:50 PM IST
The hurricane-battered Children's Hospital in New Orleans has come under siege by angry and desperate looters, the New Orleans Times Picayune reports.
Late Tuesday, Gov. Kathleen Blanco's spokeswoman Denise Bottcher said the facility in the city's north end was being targeted, and people in the hospital were in danger.
Bottcher said the director of the hospital fears for the safety of the staff and the 100 children inside the locked-down hospital. The director said police had been summoned, but due to rising floodwaters, neither they nor National Guard have been able to respond.
At least three shootings and several carjacking attempts were reported in New Orleans Tuesday.
Hurricane Katrina's western edge hit the city Monday morning with winds of 140 mph, breaching levees and flooding the city.
(UPI)
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Bad enough that there's looting. But to target a hospital, and a children's hospital, no less?!?! That's just beyond sad.
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