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Death toll from 2008 hurricane season

The Associated Press

10:15 AM EDT, September 17, 2008

This year, 461 people are known to have died in Atlantic storms, mostly due to floods and mudslides:

-- Arthur, 7: 5 in Belize, 2 in Honduras.

-- Dolly, 2: 1 in Mexico, 1 in Florida.

-- Fay, 27: 15 in Florida, 9 in Haiti, 3 in the Dominican Republic.

-- Gustav, 122: 76 in Haiti, 26 in the U.S. (19 in Louisiana, 4 in Georgia, 3 in Mississippi), 12 in Jamaica, 8 in the Dominican Republic.

-- Hanna, 175: 172 in Haiti, 2 in Puerto Rico, 1 in the Dominican Republic.

-- Ike, 128: 74 in Haiti, 4 in Cuba, 2 in the Dominican Republic, 48 deaths in 10 states as Ike moved from Texas northeastward across the U.S. midsection:
Texas -- 17, including at least five in Harris County from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Louisiana -- six, including two contractors who were electrocuted.
Tennessee -- two, both golfers killed by a falling tree.
Arkansas -- one, a man killed by a tree falling on a mobile home.
Ohio -- six, including five by falling trees and one person electrocuted while working on a generator.
Indiana -- seven, including a father and son killed helping children escape from a ditch.
Illinois -- two, including an elderly man found in a flooded backyard.
Missouri -- four, including a woman struck by a tree limb and an elderly man suspected of drowning in a flooded yard.
Kentucky -- one, a 10-year-old boy struck by a tree limb while mowing a lawn.
Pennsylvania -- two: a 46-year-old man struck by tree limb while helping remove a large tree from a house, and a 43-year-old utility worker who was electrocuted when he stepped on a live wire while working to repair power lines.

Note: Totals are based on official figures released by each government. Florida figures includes deaths indirectly caused by storms.

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