AFP report: 60 countries report dead and missing in NYC and DC!

Friday September 21, 1:11 AM

At least 60 countries report dead and missing in US
carnage

NEW YORK, Sept 20 (AFP) -

The United States may have been the main target of last week\'s terror attacks, but at least
60 countries have now reported citizens dead or missing, mostly in New York, one of the
world\'s most cosmopolitan cities.

And despite round-the-clock rescue efforts continuing on Thursday, any hope that
survivors would yet be pulled from the twisted remains of the World Trade Center had all
but been snuffed out, more than a week since the last survivor was hauled from the rubble.

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has warned that the chances of finding survivors are
\"very, very small,\" as the feared death toll from the carnage crept up to nearly 6,000.

For thousands of people, the chance that bodies of relatives would ever be recovered
looked dim as emergency workers at the site where the Twin Towers once stood had still
recovered only 233 victims after over a week of non-stop efforts.

UNITED STATES officials have given tallies that add up to 5,888 dead or missing in all
the attacks of September 11, but they have not established the total number of their
nationals among the victims.

In New York, 5,422 people are missing after the World Trade Center collapse. Another
233 are confirmed dead, their bodies or body parts recovered from the site of the World
Trade Center. Of those, 170 have been identified.

At the Pentagon, the toll was put at 189.

The figure at both sites included the crew and passengers of the three planes that slammed
into them. The total number of people killed aboard the jets amounted to 265, including the
44 victims from the fourth plane, which crashed in Pennsylvania.

ARGENTINA said four of its nationals were missing.

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.

AUSTRIA said around 40 of its nationals were missing, one of them a 25-year-old woman
named only as Alexandra H. who worked in a bank in the World Trade Center.

BANGLADESH said at least 50 Bangladeshis were presumed killed in the carnage at the
World Trade Center, where many worked in restaurants and offices.

BELGIUM said one of its nationals was missing.

BRAZIL said at least 55 of its nationals were missing.

BRITAIN said nearly 100 of its citizens were confirmed dead. Prime Minister Tony Blair
said Sunday that the final death toll of Britons, probably 200 to 300, would be the highest
in any attack since the end of World War II.

BULGARIA said that one of its citizens was missing.

CAMBODIA said it feared that some 20 of its nationals were missing following the
attacks.

CANADA said three of its nationals were confirmed dead and between 35 and 40 were
still missing.

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.

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.

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.

The CZECH REPUBLIC said 56 of its citizens who had been in the United States were
unaccounted for. Of those, up to 15 nationals were thought to have been in New York or
Washington at the time of the attacks, according to the foreign ministry.

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 in the
attacks.

The DOMINICAN REPUBLIC said one citizen, a paramedic, was found dead and 30
are missing, according to the country\'s consulate in New York.

ECUADOR listed seven citizens as dead, including one who was a passenger on a
hijacked airliner, and 29 missing.

EGYPT\'s ambassador to the United States said four Egyptians were feared dead.

EL SALVADOR said one of its citizens died on one of the hijacked planes, and up to 100
more were missing.

FINLAND said that none of its nationals were missing, having earlier said three people
were unaccounted for. The Finnish consulate in New York originally said it was trying to
track down 17 nationals.

FRANCE said a small number of its nationals working in the World Trade Center were
unaccounted for. A foreign ministry spokesman said no French dead have yet been
confirmed.

GAMBIA said that one of its citizens who worked in the World Trade Center was
presumed dead.

GERMANY said it was \"highly probable\" that 100 Germans had been killed in New York.
Estimates of the total German toll have fallen from 600 last Friday to 270 at the weekend,
and fewer than 170 by Monday evening.

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,
have been reported missing by their families.

GUATEMALA said five of its citizens are missing.

GUINEA lost several citizens in the attacks, according to the PANA news agency,
although neither government officials nor local press could confirm the report.

HONG KONG said 19 people were missing.

HONDURAS said one of its nationals was killed at the trade center and that three other
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.

HUNGARY said it had contacted 102 of the 143 Hungarian nationals reported missing by
relatives after the attacks. The foreign ministry said it had no information indicating that any
might be among the victims.

INDONESIA said one of its citizens died on one of the four hijacked planes and another
of its citizens was missing.

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.

ISRAEL said at least four of its nationals 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.

ITALY said 10 Italian nationals were still missing, according to consular authorities.

JAPAN said as many as 44 of its nationals remain 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.

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.

KENYA was missing one national, a computer analyst who worked in the World Trade
Center, according to local media.

LEBANON said two of its nationals, including one of the suspected hijackers, are
confirmed dead and four others are missing.

MALAYSIA said four of its nationals working in the World Trade Center were missing.

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.

Tepayac, a network of Mexican community organizations, said as many as 500 Mexicans
are feared dead in the collapsed towers.

THE NETHERLANDS said at least three of its citizens had died.

NORWAY said one tourist is unaccounted for, but there was no indication he had been at
the World Trade Center.

NIGERIA said one person 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 may be far higher.

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.

PARAGUAY said two of its citizens were missing and presumed dead.

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.

THE PHILIPPINES said two Filipinos were confirmed dead and 115 were missing.

POLAND said five of its citizens were reported missing.

PORTUGAL said five Portuguese were believed to have died in the World Trade Center.

RUSSIA said 117 of its nationals were missing, believed killed. The Russian embassy in
Washington said it compiled its list on the basis of calls received from Russians unable to
contact relatives or friends.

SENEGAL lost several citizens in the attacks, according to the PANA news agency,
although neither government officials nor local press could confirm the report.

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 time of the attack. His
body was pulled out of the rubble and identified Wednesday night.

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.

SOUTH KOREA\'s foreign ministry said 15 of its nationals were missing, and 14 who had
been hospitalized for injuries have been released.

SPAIN said it was without news of eight of its citizens. Only one, Silvia San Pio, was
known to be in the World Trade Center at the time of the attack. The foreign affairs
ministry said six of the missing, including San Pio, were living in New York and two were
tourists.

SWEDEN said one of its citizens, employed by a New York insurance firm, was missing.

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.

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.

TURKEY said it was tracking 120 people still unaccounted for but had no confirmed
casualties. Around 500 Turks worked in the World Trade Center.

TAIWAN said nine Taiwanese were missing.

UKRAINE said one man was missing. He had likely been visiting the WTC for a job
interview when the attacks occurred.

URUGUAY\'s former cycling champion Alberto Dominguez, 65, was on one of the flights
that crashed into the twin towers.

VENEZUELA reported two men and a woman missing. They worked for Chase
Manhattan Bank and Eurobrokers International.

ZIMBABWE reported that two of its citizens were missing -- one at the World Trade
Center and one at the Pentagon.