- NEW YORK (AFP) - The
estimated death toll from the attacks on the United States reached 6,962
Monday as New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said it would be a
"miracle"
if anyone were still found alive in the rubble.
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- Giuliani acknowledged "we're never going to recover
all" the bodies in the wreck of twisted metal and hard-packed
concrete.
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- More than 60 countries have now reported citizens dead
or missing.
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- UNITED STATES
officials
have given tallies that add up to 6,962 dead or missing in all the attacks
of September 11, but they have still not established the total number of
their nationals among the victims 13 days after the attack.
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- In New York, 6,729 people were killed or listed as
missing
from the World Trade Center disaster (comprising 276 confirmed dead and
6,453 missing, presumed dead). Workers have identified 194 bodies,
including
those of 34 firemen.
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- At the Pentagon, 189 people were confirmed dead or
missing.
So far, 117 bodies have been recovered, of which 60 have been identified.
The Defense Department said search and recovery operations would
continue.
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- The missing figure at both sites includes the 157
passengers
and crew of the two hijacked aircraft that crashed into the World Trade
Center and the 64 on the one that flew into the Pentagon.
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- Adding the 44 on the hijacked plane that crashed in
Pennsylvania,
the number of people on the four planes is given as 265.
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- (American Airlines flight 11, the first to hit the twin
towers of the WTC, was carrying 92 passengers and crew; United Airlines
flight 175, which hit the second tower, had 65 people on board; American
Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, was carrying 64
people;
and United Airlines 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania without reaching
its target, had 44 on board.)
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- ARGENTINA said four of its
nationals were missing.
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- AUSTRALIA said three of its
nationals were confirmed dead. Another 20 who were in the top floors of
the World Trade Center were missing, presumed dead, and consular staff
in Canberra and New York were looking for another 32 Australians reported
as missing.
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- AUSTRIA said around 40 of
its nationals were missing.
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- BANGLADESH said at least
50 Bangladeshis were presumed killed in the carnage at the World Trade
Center, where many worked in restaurants and offices.
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- BELGIUM said one of its
nationals
was missing.
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- BRAZIL said at least 55 of
its nationals were missing.
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- BRITAIN lost around 250 of
its citizens, according to New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The British
Foreign Office said that between 200 and 300 of its nationals were missing
and presumed dead.
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- BULGARIA said that one of
its citizens was missing.
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- CAMBODIA said some 20 of
its nationals were missing following the attacks.
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- CANADA said three of its
nationals were confirmed dead and between 25 and 35 were still
missing.
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- CHILE's New York consulate
said two of its nationals were missing and feared dead, although more than
250 have been reported missing by relatives.
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- CHINA said two Chinese
nationals
were killed and another was missing. A man and woman, both in their 60s,
died aboard the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. Chinese authorities
originally said three people had died, but the foreign ministry revised
the figure, saying that a man, Chen Xiaobing, had been rescued from the
lower floors of the building. A 41-year-old Chinese was reported
missing.
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- COLOMBIA's consulate in New
York said two of its nationals were killed -- one aboard an American
Airlines
plane that slammed into the side of the twin towers -- while 10 others
were missing. Earlier, Colombia's Red Cross had said that 295 people were
reported missing. While 17 people worked in the twin towers, others may
have been present in the area at the time.
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- The CZECH
REPUBLIC
said 56 of its citizens who had been in the United States were unaccounted
for. Of those, up to 15 were thought to have been in New York or Washington
at the time of the attacks, according to the foreign ministry.
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- DENMARK's foreign ministry
said that all of its citizens previously reported missing had turned up
safe and sound and that there had therefore been no Danish
casualties.
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- The DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
said one citizen, a paramedic, was found dead and 33 were missing,
according
to the country's consulate in New York.
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- ECUADOR listed seven citizens
as dead, including one who was a passenger on a hijacked airliner, and
29 missing.
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- EGYPT's ambassador to the
United States said four Egyptians were feared dead.
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- EL SALVADOR said one
of its citizens died on one of the hijacked planes, and up to 100 more
were missing.
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- FRANCE said a small number
of its nationals working in the World Trade Center were unaccounted for,
but no deaths had been confirmed.
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- GAMBIA said that one of its
citizens who worked in the World Trade Center was presumed dead.
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- GERMANY said it was
"highly
probable" that 100 Germans had been killed in New York.
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- GHANA said "scores"
of its nationals had worked in the World Trade Center and not all had been
accounted for. According to private radio, at least four Ghanaians, one
a woman, had been reported missing by their families.
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- GREECE said three of its
nationals were dead and 30 were missing but acknowledged the figure
probably
included Greek-Americans counted in other lists.
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- GUATEMALA said five of its
citizens were missing.
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- GUINEA lost several citizens
in the attacks, according to the PANA news agency, although neither
government
officials nor local press could confirm the report.
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- HONG KONG said 16
people were missing.
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- HONDURAS said one of its
nationals was killed at the trade center and that three Honduran women
were missing, but added that it had information that up to 500 Hondurans
and Salvadorans worked in the towers, although not necessarily at the time
of the disaster.
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- HUNGARY said it had not yet
contacted 41 people out of 143 of its nationals reported missing by
relatives.
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- INDIA was unable to confirm
a figure given by US President George W. Bush in a speech to Congress
Thursday
that "more than 250 citizens of India" were killed. The Indian
foreign ministry said the toll could include US and other nationals of
Indian origin.
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- INDONESIA said one of its
citizens died on one of the hijacked planes and another was missing.
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- IRELAND said five Irish
citizens
had been confirmed dead, including a woman and her four-year-old daughter
who perished aboard one of the jets that hit the World Trade Center and
a worker in one of the towers. More than 20 other Irish nationals were
missing.
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- ISRAEL said at least four
Israelis were presumed dead, two on the doomed flights and two in the twin
towers, and another 60 were unaccounted for. A foreign ministry spokesman
said the toll could still fall as more people were traced.
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- ITALY said 10 Italians were
missing, according to consular authorities.
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- JAPAN said as many as 44
Japanese remained unaccounted for, 20 more than officially listed as
missing.
Twenty-two of the presumed victims worked at Japanese-affiliated offices
in the World Trade Center. One is believed to have been aboard one of the
planes which crashed into them, and another is missing after United
Airlines
Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania.
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- JORDAN said one of its
nationals,
who also had US citizenship, was believed to be in the World Trade Center
at the time of the attack.
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- KENYA was missing one
national,
a computer analyst who worked in the World Trade Center, local media
said.
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- LEBANON said two Lebanese,
including one of the suspected hijackers, were confirmed dead and four
others were missing.
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- MALAYSIA said four of
Malaysians
working in the World Trade Center were missing.
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- MEXICO was missing 20
nationals
in the attacks on the World Trade Center, including a consular employee.
The Mexican consul in New York, Salvador Beltran, said 150 Mexicans worked
in the center, though media said hundreds more worked in restaurants on
the lower levels and in the immediate vicinity.
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- Tepayac, a network of Mexican community organizations,
said as many as 500 Mexicans were feared dead in the collapsed
towers.
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- THE NETHERLANDS said
at least three Dutch citizens had died and several were missing since the
attacks.
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- NORWAY said one tourist was
unaccounted for, but there was no indication he had been at the World Trade
Center.
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- NIGERIA said one Nigerian
was dead and four missing or wounded, Nigerian Consul General Tafiq Oseni
said in New York. The victim was a woman working as an accountant in the
World Trade Center's Windows on the World restaurant. Leading newspaper
The Guardian reported, however, that the figure for missing nationals could
be far higher.
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- PAKISTAN said one Pakistani
was confirmed dead and at least 200 were missing. Another 15 were injured,
some seriously, after being pulled from the rubble. A government spokesman
said around 650 Pakistani nationals worked in the World Trade
Center.
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- PARAGUAY said two of its
citizens were missing, presumed dead.
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- PERU lost one citizen, a
New York resident who worked in the World Trade Center, according to local
media, and Peruvian diplomats in the United States said another five
Peruvians
were missing.
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- THE PHILIPPINES said
two Filipinos were confirmed dead and 115 were missing.
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- POLAND said five of its
citizens
were missing.
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- PORTUGAL said five Portuguese
were believed to have died in the World Trade Center.
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- RUSSIA said 117 of its
nationals
were missing and believed dead. The Russian embassy in Washington said
it compiled its list on the basis of calls received from Russians unable
to contact relatives or friends.
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- SENEGAL lost several citizens
in the attacks, according to the PANA news agency, although neither
government
officials nor local press could confirm the report.
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- SOUTH AFRICA said
at least one of its nationals was confirmed dead: Nick Rowe, a businessman
who was on the 106th floor of the WTC north tower at the time of the
attack.
His body was pulled out of the rubble and identified Wednesday
night.
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- Presumed dead is Edmund Glazer, a 41-year-old immigrant
to the US who telephoned his wife from aboard the first aircraft flown
into the World Trade Center. Five other South Africans are unaccounted
for.
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- SOUTH KOREA's foreign
ministry said 15 of its nationals were missing, and 14 who had been
hospitalized
for injuries have been released.
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- SPAIN said three of its
nationals
were missing.
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- SWEDEN said one of its
citizens,
employed by a New York insurance firm, was missing.
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- SWITZERLAND said that two
of its citizens who were aboard one of the hijacked planes were killed
and that four other Swiss nationals were still missing.
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- THAILAND has said two Thais
working for private companies at the World Trade Center are missing.
Another
17 staff working for government agencies with offices in the buildings
have been accounted for.
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- TURKEY said it was tracking
120 people still unaccounted for but had no confirmed casualties. Around
500 Turks worked in the World Trade Center.
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- TAIWAN said nine Taiwanese
were missing.
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- UKRAINE said one man was
missing. He had likely been visiting the WTC for a job interview when the
attacks occurred.
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- URUGUAY's former cycling
champion Alberto Dominguez, 65, was on one of the flights that crashed
into the twin towers.
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- VENEZUELA reported two men
and a woman missing. They worked for Chase Manhattan Bank and Eurobrokers
International.
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- YUGOSLAVIA said five of its
nationals are missing, all presumed to have been in the World Trade Center
at the time of the attack.
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- ZIMBABWE reported that two
of its citizens were missing -- one at the World Trade Center and one at
the Pentagon.
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