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.
Monday's discovery pushed Ike's toll in Texas to 37.
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.
