Officials in New York have reduced the number of people reported missing from the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre by more than 400. This brings the total number of people dead or missing in the attacks to less than 6,000.
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told a news conference that police had listed some 5,219 people as missing, with another 314 confirmed dead of whom 255 had been identified. On Saturday, 5,641 were reported as missing.
One hundred and eighty-nine people have been confirmed dead or missing following the attacks on the Pentagon, including 64 on board the hijacked jetliner. Forty-four people have been confirmed dead from the crash of a fourth hijacked plane in Pennsylvania bringing to 5,766 the total number of people dead or missing.
The changing toll is said to have been the result of names being listed twice or foreign nationals who were reported missing by their governments later turning up elsewhere.
