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NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- New York's chief medical examiner's office said Friday it had revised the death toll of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center to 2,749.
Medical examiner officials said three names were removed from their total because it could not be determined the people died in the attacks.
Medical examiner's office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said 2,749 death certificates had been issued, matching the office's count of missing victims.
The medical examiner's office task of identifying remains continues, Borakove said. But there are no people reported missing who are known to have been in or near the trade center towers at the time of the attacks.
On Sept. 11, 2001, four U.S. jetliners were hijacked. Two were flown into the 110-story towers of the World Trade Center causing the structures to collapse. A third plane was smashed into the Pentagon near Washington and the fourth crashed in western Pennsylvania apparently after passengers tried to retake control of the aircraft.
A total of 184 people died in the Pentagon crash and 40 were killed in the Pennsylvania crash, setting the total Sept. 11 death toll at 2,973.
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