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Four deaths in Louisiana being investigated as weather-related as heavy rains deluge state


Louisiana reports at least 4 weather-related deaths as heavy rains deluge state
CNN
1 day ago
By Jamiel Lynch, Jason Hanna and Amanda Jackson, CNN
© Rick Hickman/AP
Cars sit stalled on a flooded Sale Road during heavy rains in Lake Charles, La., Monday, May 17, 2021.
Storms and flooding have killed at least four people in Louisiana this week, officials in the rain-deluged state said Wednesday.
Three deaths were of people who were in submerged vehicles in different parts of the state, said Mindy Faciane, spokesperson for the Louisiana Department of Health.
According to Faciane:
A 44-year-old man died when his vehicle crashed into a flooded canal in West Baton Rouge Parish; ....

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