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GONAIVES, Haiti (AP) - Hungry, thirsty and increasingly desperate residents attacked each other in a panic to get scarce food and water Thursday as workers struggled to bury hundreds of corpses six days after the city was struck by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
More than 1,100 were killed and 1,250 are missing, and the toll was rising. The storm left 300,000 homeless in Haiti's northwest province, which includes the port of Gonaives.
Health workers feared an epidemic of disease in the country's third-largest city from the unburied dead, overflowing raw sewage, lack of potable water, and infections from injuries. Some people already were falling ill.
Police erected barbed wire around their station Thursday after shots were fired at the station overnight.
Most of the police also were left homeless by the floods, and their only vehicle wasn't working, officer Louis Francois said. Their helplessness enraged residents, who have started throwing rocks at the few riot police the government sent in to help.
