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GONAIVES (Haiti): Trucks dumped scores of bodies into a mass grave in this flood-ravaged city still littered with corpses, as officials said the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and could double again. There was no funeral ceremony when the bodies were dumped into a 4metre-deep hole at sunset on Wednesday. Dozens of bystanders shrieked, held their noses against the stench and demanded officials collect bodies in nearby waterlogged fields. The confirmed death toll rose to 1,072, with 1,013 bodies recovered in Gonaives alone, according to Dieufort Deslorges, spokesman for the Government's civil protection agency. Hurricane experts said on Thursday that Jeanne — now a 160-kmph hurricane — appeared set to do a loop over the Atlantic and zero in on the northwest and central islands of the Bahamas and then the southeast U.S. coast, with forecasts putting Florida firmly in its sights. Landfall was possible on Saturday. Meteorologists at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami warned that Jeanne could hit anywhere from Florida to the Carolinas.
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