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Ida deaths: Nursing home residents die after evacuation

by Melinda DeslatteRebecca Santana
| September 5, 2021 12:03 AM

INDEPENDENCE, La. (AP) — Four nursing home residents in Louisiana died after being evacuated during Hurricane Ida to a warehouse where conditions were later determined to be unhealthy and unsafe, according to state health officials who said Thursday that they had launched an investigation into the facility.

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