Swiss police have said that the number of people still reported missing after last week's inferno in the St. Gotthard tunnel, has fallen to 35.
A local police spokesman said it was unlikely that many of the missing would have been in the tunnel. So far there have been 11 confirmed deaths as a result of the crash between two lorries and the subsequent fire, which turned the Alpine tunnel into a furnace.
A local police spokesman put the number of bodies still likely to be recovered at a maximum of 10.
He said: "We have received appeals from all over Europe since the accident from families trying to trace relatives who were travelling at the time of the accident."
He added: "We are still receiving appeals."
Police say 10 bodies had been recovered from the scene of the accident. The eleventh, that of the driver of a Belgian truck involved in the collision with another heavy goods vehicle causing the blaze, had not been found.
Nine victims, four Germans, two French people, an Italian, a Swiss and a Turk, had been identified.
Meanwhile, Marco Borradori, head of the Ticino region, said that as a short term measure when the tunnel reopens, truck traffic through the link should be suspended for a while and then strictly limited.
Discussions were to begin on means to combat the rash of accidents and blazes plaguing European tunnels in recent years.
AFP