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HOUSTON (AP) - At least two of the Katrina refugees scattered around the country have committed suicide, and 55 others have died as well, most of them sick and elderly people whose conditions may have been worsened by their stress, authorities said Wednesday.
In Texas — which has at least 250,000 Katrina victims, more than any other state — at least 53 have died in the 2 1/2 weeks since they were evacuated from the New Orleans area. Two deaths were reported in Tennessee.
Alma Morrow, a 78-year-old New Orleans refugee, died in Dallas on Monday of kidney failure and a collapsed lung, according to her brother. Nineteen other members of her family had been evacuated to San Antonio.
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