New Orleans ? Eight months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, the body of one more victim has turned up.

A search team found the body Saturday in the rear laundry room of a house in Mid-City. DNA must identify the body; the only certainty at present is that the body was adult and male, said John Gagliano, chief coroner’s investigator in New Orleans.

Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals this month raised the state’s death toll from Katrina by 281, to a total of 1,577, after more reports of out-of-state deaths came in.