Another 20-30 Japanese declared missing in New York.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Sept. 20 Kyodo The Japanese Consulate-General in New York said Thursday consular con·sul n. Abbr. Con. or Cons. 1. An official appointed by a government to reside in a foreign country and represent his or her government's commercial interests and assist its citizens there. See Usage Note at council. officials have not been able to establish contact with 20-30 Japanese nationals since last week's terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. These people are in addition to the 22 businesspeople who were inside the trade center at the time of the attack and have since been declared missing. None of the people newly listed as missing were employees of Japanese or non-Japanese firms located in the World Trade Center, the consulate Consulate, 1799–1804, in French history, form of government established after the coup of 18 Brumaire (Nov. 9–10, 1799), which ended the Directory. said. There is a possibility that their missing status is completely unrelated to the terrorist attacks, consulate officials said. Two Japanese are also believed to be onboard Refers to a chip or other hardware component that is directly attached to the printed circuit board (motherboard). Contrast with offboard. See inboard. the jetliners that slammed into the twin towers. Meanwhile, rescuers have recovered 241 bodies from the wreckage wreck·age n. 1. The act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked. 2. Something wrecked. 3. The debris of something wrecked. of the trade center while the total number of people missing has risen to 6,333, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told a news conference on Thursday. |
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