Unbelievable! Coffins from a Graveyard Seen Floating Through the Streets After Horrible Flood (Photos)

 

Photos have shown the moment heavy flooding made several caskets float around the street.

 

In the shocking photos showing the devastation following floods in Louisiana, caskets are seen being washed up from a graveyard and then floated down the street in Denham Springs.

 

According to Daily Mail, President Barack Obama declared Louisiana was in a state of disaster on Sunday after a historic flood left at least five people dead, with emergency crews working to rescue thousands more.

 

The State Governor, John Bel Edwards revealed that more than 10,000 people are now in shelters and more than 20,000 people have been rescued across south Louisiana.

 

 

More than a foot of rain fell overnight on Friday - in a deluge estimated to occur once every 500 years, according to the Pacific Standard.  

 

In shocking photos showing the devastation, caskets that had washed up from a graveyard floated down the street in Denham Springs, Louisiana. 

 

Four people have been reported dead, said Devin George, the state registrar for vital records, earlier Sunday. 

 

A woman's body was later recovered by divers from inside a flooded vehicle in East Baton Rouge Parish, appearing to raise the death toll to five.

 

See more photos of the devastating floods below: