Katrina survivors frustrated by slow relief response
AFP, September, 2005
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NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) — Survivors of Hurricane Katrina, huddled in sweltering squalor and terrorized by armed gangs, expressed outrage at the authorities' failure to stem rising chaos.
Residents trapped in this southern city three days after Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast, leaving thousands feared dead, reported nightmarish scenes of gunbattles, fistfights and people dying for simple lack of attention.
"This is a war zone," said Melissa Murray, 32, a Louisiana state corrections officer who drove down here to help in the relief effort.
But if officials said they had rushed in some 4,000 National Guardsmen to restore order, the troops' presence had yet to be felt by the weary bands of hurricane victims trying to stay alive and scrounge up food and water.
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