The international shock of the attacks in the US continued to reverberate yesterday as countries added to the body count of their citizens among the victims.
Emergency workers at the site of the shattered World Trade Center have so far recovered just a fraction of the bodies of the estimated 5,000 people believed to be under the rubble, leaving distraught families around the world clinging to the very thin hope that those missing might yet be found alive.
The US has so far given no official estimate as to the total number of dead in the rubble of the World Trade Center, but New York City authorities say more than 4,900 people are missing.
The figure includes 300 firefighters, 44 Port Authority police, 23 police officers, an FBI agent and a Secret Service agent.
The total also includes the 157 passengers and crew known to have been on board the two planes which exploded in huge fireballs on the upper floors of the 110-storey twin towers.
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said 159 bodies have so far been pulled from the wreckage of the World Trade Center. Ninety-nine of them have been identified.
The Pentagon said 125 people who worked in the US military headquarters remain missing. The airline reported earlier that the plane was carrying 64 passengers and crew when it slammed into the building.
AFRICA
South Africa said at least one South African was presumed dead: 41-year old businessman Edmund Glazer, an immigrant to the US who telephoned his wife from aboard the first aircraft flown into the World Trade Center.
It is investigating reports of eight South Africans who may have been in or near the trade center, or aboard the flights that destroyed the twin towers, and of a further 16 South Africans reported to have been in the areas near the disaster sites in New York and Washington.
A Kenyan computer analyst who worked in the World Trade Center is among thousands of people missing since Tuesday's terrorist attack destroyed the New York building, the Sunday Nation reported.
Kaaria Mbaya worked as a senior computer analyst with a company on the 105th floor of one of the World Trade Center's twin towers, his mother Verstistine Mbaya told the paper.
Zimbabwe's ambassador to the US was quoted as saying six Zimbabweans were missing and feared dead; five in New York and one who worked in the Pentagon as an engineer.
AUSTRO-ASIA
Australia said three of its nationals were confirmed dead. Another 69 who were in the vicinity of the trade center were unaccounted for.
Bangladesh said at least 50 of its citizens were killed at the trade center while Cambodia said it feared that some 20 of its nationals were missing.
China said that three of its nationals died and another was missing.
Hong Kong said 17 people were missing, including one tourist visiting New York.
Indonesia said one of its citizens died on one of the hijacked planes and another of its citizens was missing.
Japan said two Japanese died on the hijacked planes and that another 22 who were in the trade center were missing.
Malaysia said seven of its nationals working in the trade center were missing.
Pakistan said only one of its nations has been confirmed dead in the attacks but that figure is certain to rise. A government spokesman said around 650 Pakistani nationals worked in the trade center.
The Philippines said two Filipinos were confirmed dead and 115 were missing.
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