U.S. Troops Join Search for Felix Dead

PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua - U.S., Honduran and Nicaraguan soldiers searched the land and sea Thursday for survivors and the dead from Hurricane Felix's rampage, as the death toll neared 100. Villagers in canoes helped, paddling through waters thick with fallen trees.

Two days after the storm hit, the bodies of many more Nicarguans were recovered, bringing the toll to at least 98, according to Abelino Cox, the spokesman for the Regional Emergency Committee in Puerto Cabezas. At least one Honduran also died in the tempest.

Nicaraguan officials previously put their toll at 65 dead, but Cox did not say where the other 33 deaths occurred.

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