Anguished relatives still await word on 131 kids (Katrina)

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Anguished relatives still await word on 131 kids By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
Fri Feb 24, 7:32 AM ET



Distraught relatives continue to search for at least 131 children whom they have not heard from since Hurricane Katrina struck six months ago.


Almost all, 97%, of children initially displaced by America's worst natural disaster have been reunited with parents or other relatives, says Ernie Allen, president of the National Center For Missing & Exploited Children, a private advocacy group. Yet investigators are struggling to find the rest.


"We're still operating under the assumption that most of these kids are with someone," Allen says. "But some probably didn't survive the storm and won't be found."


The center has heard from relatives who say they still don't know the whereabouts of 131 children - five in Mississippi and the rest in Louisiana, mostly New Orleans.

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1. They went from 3100 missing to 131?

hmmmmmmmmm...

Peace.

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2. that's just the children...

The official missing number is somewhere just under 2k, IIRC..