Jeanne death toll could rise to 2,000

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.

An estimated quarter million Haitians were left homeless.

Survivors who spent the night crammed into schools, churches and on rooftops slogged through contaminated ankle-deep mud in Gonaives yesterday, holding limes to their noses against the stench of putrefying bodies and overflowing latrines. People defecated on sidewalks.