One dead, several injured in New Orleans tornado

NEW ORLEANS, Feb 13 (Reuters) One person was killed and several injured today when a tornado swept through New Orleans neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.

The lone death was an 86-year-old woman living in a government-provided trailer in the Gentilly section that had been badly flooded by the August 2005 hurricane, New Orleans police superintendent Warren Riley said.

He said several people were taken to local hospitals with minor injuries, and police and firefighters were searching for more victims.

The National Weather Service said one tornado was confirmed, but there may have been others.

Entergy Corp. said the storm had knocked out power to as many as 29,000 customers.

Mayor Ray Nagin, touring the newly damaged areas, told Reuters the tornado was another setback for New Orleans, which has less than half its pre-Katrina population of 500,000.

''For the city, it's a bad thing, because it further unnerves everybody that's trying to recover from Katrina,'' he said.

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