Official Katrina death toll passes 400

BATON ROUGE - The official death toll from Hurricane Katrina rose to more than 400 on Sunday, as Louisiana officials raised the number of confirmed deaths to 197 from the August 29 storm.

Most of the Louisiana dead are now at a morgue established in the city of St. Gabriel, the state Department of Health and Hospitals said in a statement.

The death toll in Mississippi is confirmed to be at least 211 and the storm killed seven in Florida.

- REUTERS