Hope that survivors would yet be pulled from the remains of New York's World Trade Center was all but extinguished Thursday, more than a week after the last survivor was dragged 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 some of those fearing the worst for loved ones reported missing after the September 11 attacks there was relief, as one by one, more and more dazed and deeply shocked people telephoned friends and family to say they were safe.
But for thousands of others, the chance that bodies of relatives would ever be recovered looked dim as emergency workers at the site where the WTC once stood had still recovered only 218 victims after more than 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 what used to be 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 which slammed into them. When the 44 victims from the fourth plane, which crashed in Pennsylvania, are added, the total number of people on the aircraft comes to 265.
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 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.
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 58 of its citizens who had been in the United States were unaccounted for. Of those, about 20 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 three nationals were unaccounted for, but the foreign ministry believed they were safe and might not be in New York or Washington. 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.
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.
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 anti-US 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 four 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 have been reported missing, but the figure may change because a total of 49 people with Italian names are on a list of those unaccounted for.
JAPAN said as many as 44 of its nationals remain unaccounted for, 20 more than officially listed as missing.
"Approximately 20 [more] people have not been confirmed [as safe], and right now we are trying to find them," a foreign ministry official said.
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 20 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.
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.
SOUTH AFRICA said at least one of its nationals was presumed dead: businessman Edmund Glazer, a 41-year-old immigrant to the United States who telephoned his wife from aboard the first aircraft flown into the World Trade Center. Six other South Africans are still 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 -- NEW YORK (AFP)
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