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As of 2004, 2,992 people were presumed dead as a result of all four September 11 attacks. This includes the casualties at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, on the airplanes and the hijackers.
265 people killed on four planes; 232 passengers, 25 flight attendants, 8 pilots. (Note that this total includes the 19 hijackers, who reportedly boarded the planes as passengers.)
See also: The listing and memorial.
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The number of missing people grew to estimates as high as over 6000 in the weeks following the attack, but steadily declined as stories were checked and duplicate entries removed. (See Timeline of WTC missing).
As of August 2002, there were approximately 90 people who were officially missing; that is, their remains had not been identified and no family members had requested a death certificate.
The great majority of the over 40,000 people working at the World Trade Center at the time of the attack evacuated safely, including 18 who escaped from above the impact zone in the second tower hit. By September 20, 2001, 6291 people, including rescue and recovery workers, had been treated for injuries.
The Pentagon reports 125 staffers killed or missing, with 121 remains recovered and identified, as of September 11, 2002. At least one person died later as a result of wounds incurred.
The Pentagon reports 4 staffers missing. One passenger on the airliner which hit the Pentagon was also never identified.
88 treated at hospital.
Due to the very large number of World Trade Center casualties and missing persons, victim legends were a common form of September 11, Terrorist Attack urban legends. These were tales of victims who did not exist, spread by word-of-mouth and the Internet. Official sites, such as http://www.september11victims.com, contain accurate entries and are trusted content. Because BambooWeb, and many other websites allowed freely adding victims, there were no doubt many obvious fake entries. Victims added to these lists were also sometimes simply missing at the time of the attacks, or actually survivors of the attacks.
Note: There is very little information on the nationalities of the victims that I know of. Not all victims were US citizens, yet when it comes to justification for war, they are all refered to as American victims. Equally to note is that not many of the other nationalities' countries went to war quite the same way the US did, even though they could cite the same reason for doing so ie. loss of life.
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