HUNGRY, thirsty and increasingly desperate Haitians burned tyres in protest and attacked aid trucks and people carrying scarce food and water as workers struggled to bury thousands of victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne.

TRUCKS dumped scores of bodies into a mass grave in a flood-ravaged Haitian city still littered with corpses, as officials said the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and could rise to 2,000.

Trucks dumped scores of bodies into a mass grave in a flood-ravaged Haitian city as officials said the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and could double again.

BODIES lay in growing piles outside mortuaries yesterday as United Nations peacekeepers planned the first major distribution of food and water in Haiti.

Bodies remained in the streets and in growing piles outside morgues in a Haitian city that has been devastated by floods that have torn apart families and left hungry crowds mobbing truckloads of aid.

Workers started digging a mass grave for the bodies of Haitian flood victims today after Tropical Storm Jeanne left up to 1,000 people dead.

At least 622 people have now been killed by Tropical Storm Jeanne in Haiti, and officials expect to find many more bodies.

Bloated bodies and weeping relatives filled mortuaries today as Tropical Storm Jeanne killed more than 570 Haitians with the toll expected to rise.

Tropical Storm Jeanne brought raging floodwaters to Haiti, killing at least 90 people and leaving dozens of Haitian families huddled on rooftops as the storm pushed further out into the open seas, officials said.

America's shellshocked southern coastal states began to clean up after their third hurricane pummelling in five weeks, which could cost a total of up to $20bn (€16.4bn).

HURRICANE Ivan extended its deadly march across the Southern United States yesterday, destroying homes, swamping streets and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power from the Gulf Coast to the Carolinas.

Hurricane Ivan has spun off deadly tornadoes, swamped streets in storm-weary Florida and battered the Alabama coast, drenching other south-eastern states with heavy rains and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands.

Twenty-two people lay dead and hundreds of homes were in ruins today in the wake of Hurricane Ivan.

HURRICANE Ivan slammed into the Gulf Coast early yesterday with 130mph winds, launching tornadoes, washing out a major bridge, hurling metal signs through the night and killing at least 12 people.

Hurricane Ivan slammed into the southern coast of the United States today, claiming at least 12 lives and causing widespread damage.

Hurricane Ivan slammed ashore in the US early today with winds of 130 mph, packing deadly tornadoes and a powerful punch of waves and rain that threatened to swamp communities from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle.

A MONSTER hurricane was approaching the southern US last night, threatening to destroy the city of New Orleans and forcing two million people to flee.

More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out as 140-mph Hurricane Ivan churned toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to submerge the below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.

Apprehensive coastal residents from Florida’s Panhandle to Louisiana started boarding up windows, packing and hitting the road today as powerful Hurricane Ivan headed for the Gulf Coast after ploughing across Cuba.