BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Authorities have discovered another body at the New Orleans-area nursing home that failed to evacuate its residents from Hurricane Katrina.
The recent discovery brings the total number who died there to 35.
"In the St. Rita Nursing Home just this weekend we found another body who we think is a nursing home patient, a lady who had a feeding tube in her stomach," Charles Foti Jr. told CNN's "American Morning."
Mable and Salvador Mangano Sr., the home's husband-and-wife owners, are charged with 34 counts of negligent homicide.
In all, 13 nursing homes are under criminal investigation for failure to evacuate their patients before the Category 4 storm made landfall August 29.
The attorney general said the failure to evacuate resulted in the deaths of perhaps more than 100 senior citizens in Louisiana.
