Corpses float amid rescue efforts in Haitian city

GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) - An already desperate situation in one of Haiti’s largest cities has turned gruesome.
As floodwaters from Tropical Storm Hanna recede in the low-lying town of Gonaives (goh-nah-EEV’), corpses have surfaced in the muddy wreckage. That’s brought the death toll from the storm to 137. Thousands of people have been marooned in the city without food or drinking water. U.N. peacekeeping troops in Gonaives have been dishing out food from their own supplies to hungry orphans, but more substantial aid convoys have not been able to reach the city.
Flood waters have torn up roads, making them impassable. Compounding the worries, the current break in the weather is
expected to be short. Hurricane Ike could sideswipe Haiti this weekend. One aid worker saids the soil is already saturated and “there is no way for the rivers to take more water.“