Body found on island pushes Ike death toll to 72

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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 national death toll to 72. 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. More than 1 million people evacuated the Texas coast because of Ike. The storm caused flooding and deaths as far away as Pennsylvania and Illinois.