9/11 death toll drops again [View All]

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.itv.com/news/2063117.html

The number of people killed in the attacks that destroyed New York's World Trade Center has dropped by 40 to 2,752 after investigators found further incidence of fraud, duplication and people once thought dead.

The official death toll has fluctuated frequently since the attack on the twin towers on the morning of September 11, 2001, at a time when tens of thousands were normally in the vicinity of the lower Manhattan complex.

A spokeswoman for the city's medical examiner said: "Forty names have been taken off the list. Two or three are still being investigated, so those could still be removed in the future."

For more than a year the figure has remained at 2,792, according to police and the medical examiner.

The revision changes the overall official number of those killed in attacks by four hijacked aircraft to 2,985.

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I have been hearing Repug pundits referring to the death toll of 911 at 7000 in past weeks. Has anyone else noticed this?