Chaos as law breaks down in city

FIGHTS and fires broke out at the hot and stinking Superdome yesterday and anger and unrest mounted as New Orleans descended into chaos.

National Guardsmen in armoured vehicles poured in to help restore order across the increasingly lawless and desperate city.

“We are out here like pure animals. We don’t have help,” the Rev Issac Clark, 68, said outside the New Orleans Convention Centre, where corpses lay in the open and evacuees complained that they had been dropped off and given nothing.