[Actual final death total is 2645]
[Estimated total of deaths and injured is 3400][This is based on body parts - some people have not been identified]
The official death toll has fluctuated frequently since two hijacked passenger planes were flown into the 110-storey twin towers of the World Trade Center at a time when tens of thousands were normally in the vicinity of the lower Manhattan complex.
Some of the 40 taken off the list were originally reported missing by people living overseas.
"Two or three are still being investigated, so those could still be removed in the future.
"Some people were duplication, some were alive and didn't even know they had been reported missing; There are Other people who claimed people were missing who didn't even exist," she said.
Since the tragedy, it has been discovered some people invented the names of people to fraudulently claim compensation from the city.
New York police have arrested 40 people falsely claiming they lost loved ones. Other names removed yesterday included people whose relatives said they were near the towers at the time but can give little more information.
(source: www.greatdreams.com/trade)
