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Ike Death Toll Up To 37 With Body On Goat Island

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Oct 8, 2008 9:40 am US/Central

Ike Death Toll Up To 37 With Body On Goat Island

GALVESTON (AP) ― An animal control officer stumbled across the body of a Hurricane Ike victim on an island near where the storm slammed ashore last month, bringing the Texas death toll to 37.

The Galveston Medical Examiner's Office said the unidentified victim was found Monday on Goat Island, a narrow point of uninhabited land off the devastated Bolivar Peninsula. This was the fifth Hurricane Ike victim found on the island.

Monday's discovery pushed Ike's toll in the United States to 72.

More than 1 million people evacuated the Texas coast due to Ike. The storm caused flooding and deaths as far away as Pennsylvania and Illinois.

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