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The scant figures available the day after the assault hardly give meaning to the horror. But a handful of preliminary numbers offer a semblance of perspective:10,000 -- Early number given by U.S. Rep. Jim Moran of the possible dead in the World Trade Center. An estimated 30,000 to 50,000 might have been in or near the center's twin towers when they were hit by hijacked jetliners Tuesday morning. How many of them escaped before the 110-story buildings collapsed soon after remained unknown.
800 -- High estimate for fatalities at the Pentagon, where fires raged for hours after a commercial jet slammed into it.
300 -- Firefighters feared dead in New York, most engulfed by the collapsing hulks of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, as they attempted to help victims out of the burning buildings. The total could climb much higher.
266 -- Persons aboard four jetliners, transformed by hijackers into suicide bombs, two aimed at the World Trade Center, one at the Pentagon, and one that crashed in rural Pennsylvania, which appeared to have fallen short of a target near Washington, D.C. No survivors expected.
85 -- New York City police officers thought to have died during early emergency efforts in lower Manhattan.
7 -- Known dead at New York hospitals late Tuesday. The small number provided little consolation to city authorities. Most of the dead never made it to hospitals.
In all, more than 1,400 are known or presumed dead, with thousands more unaccounted for and feared dead. Some 1,400 injured were admitted to New York area hospitals, many in critical condition with extensive burns.
"They're charred. Their skin is coming off. There's tremendous suffering," one emergency doctor said.
There were sporadic reports of survivors in the rubble. But in general, the macabre scene in lower Manhattan proved disheartening to rescue workers.
Sifting through the rubble, they saw thousands of body parts strewn about. A National Guardsman collapsed in anguish, his head in his hands as he sat on the curb.
Said one man leaving the scene: "You don't want to know. You don't want to know the things we stepped over. It was horrific."
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quote:11.000 bodybags....
NEW YORK — Hopes of finding anyone alive under the demolished Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were dwindling Thursday despite the heroic efforts of rescue squads and volunteers to find survivors. New York City requested 6,000 body bags from federal officials, and The New York Times reported that a second request for an additional 5,000 bags was forthcoming.
Weary rescue crews dug through rubble and body parts in the stark glare of spotlights for a second night, desperately hunting for signs of life amid the smoking remains of the landmark Twin Towers. A forecast for thundershowers Thursday night and rain Friday morning threatened to hamper further the search for survivors."The volunteers are literally putting their lives at risk," New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.
A vast section of New York was sealed off, and the stock markets remained closed for the longest stretch since World War II. Work was slowed by hellish bursts of flame and the collapse of the last standing section of one of the towers taken out Tuesday by terrorists who commandeered two passenger airlines and smashed them into the 110-story skyscrapers.
No survivors have been pulled out since early Wednesday, when five people were pulled alive from the rubble — including three police officers. But the dead far outweighed the living: the official death toll stood at 94, with 3,700 people missing.
"Let's just say there was a steady stream of body bags coming out all night," said Dr. Todd Wider, a surgeon who was working at a triage center. "That and lots and lots of body parts."
In all, about 1,000 people were confirmed missing or dead in the attacks in New York; at the Pentagon, which was damaged by a third jet; and in western Pennsylvania, where the fourth hijacked plane crashed. The toll is sure to rise.
In addition, The New York Times reported that three financial companies with offices in the complex said more than 1,500 workers were unaccounted for.
quote:je gaat je toch afvragen wat de lijkzakfabrikant daar van vindt...
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