The number of people missing feared dead from the US terrorist attacks today stood at 6,818 after 11 more bodies were found at the World Trade Centre.
New York Mayor Mr Rudy Giuliani said the figure could change as officials cross check reports of missing people.
He admitted yesterday it was "impossible" that groups of people will be rescued from the wreckage of the World Trade Centre.
Mayor Giuliani insisted there was still a small chance of finding individual survivors but he said ``the chance of recovering significant numbers of people who survived is impossible''.
Survival experts said there was still a chance that people were trapped alive inside the debris of the twin towers, which collapsed last Tuesday week after they were hit by two hijacked planes.
The number of people missing at the World Trade Centre is 6,333.
The confirmed death toll in the World Trade Centre now stands at 252, plus 189 from the Pentagon crash and 44 on the hijacked plane which crashed in Pennsylvania.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has said that five Irish people have been confirmed dead.
They are Mr Martin Coughlan (53) from Co Tipperary, who was working as a carpenter in the South Tower.
Mr Patrick Currivan (53) of Dublin, was on board one of the hijacked jets which smashed into the twin towers.
Mrs Ruth McCourt (44) from Cork, and her four-year-old daughter, Juliana, were on the United Airlines Flight 175.
The chaplain of the New York Fire Department, Father Mychal Judge (68), whose parents came from Co Leitrim, was giving the Last Rites to a firefighter when he was killed by falling debris from the collapsing towers.
The Department has also said that eight Irish-born people are missing and include Mr Kieran Gorman (35) a labourer from Co Sligo.
Mr Eamon McEneaney (46) originally from Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, who survived the 1993 bomb attack on the World Trade Centre, but has not been seen since September 11th, when he was working as a financial consultant in the south tower of the World Trade Centre.
Ms Ann Marie McHugh (35) from Co Galway, and Mr Sean Canavan (39), a cousin of Tyrone footballers Peter and Pascal Canavan, are both missing.
Mr Damien Meehan (33) a financial adviser whose family originally come from Co Donegal, was in the 88th floor of north tower when the first plane hit.
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