Hurricane picture: Sadler Apartments in Biloxi destroyed

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A view of the Sadler Apartments in Biloxi, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina destroyed them and close to 100 condominiums on the Biloxi waterfront.

Hurricane Katrina ripped into the US Gulf Coast, stranding people on rooftops as it pummelled the historic jazz city New Orleans with 160 km/h winds and swamped Mississippi resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater.

- REUTERS