WASHINGTON - Nearly 900 foreign nationals, many of them French and British, are still missing in the areas devastated last week by Hurricane Katrina, The Washington Times said on Thursday.
The US State Department Wednesday afternoon told the newspaper that, based on numbers provided by various embassies, 883 foreign nationals were still unaccounted for in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A spokesman for the British Embassy here said 50 Britons were located in the New Orleans’ Superdome, but that 96 other nationals were still missing. At the French Embassy, a spokeswoman said 50 French had been located and that information on an additional 10 nationals had been received, but that 160 Frenchmen were yet to be found.
A Mexican consular official in Houston, Texas, told The Washington Times that it was difficult to provide a number of Mexicans still missing since many of them were undocumented. |