NEW YORK (AFP) - The number of people registered as missing in the ruins of the World Trade Center has fallen by nearly 2,000 to 4,620, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday.

But Giuliani told reporters that while 4,620 people were recorded as missing at family center set up for victims of the September 11 attack, a total of 5,960 people had been registered as missing persons with the police

He said the final toll was likely to be somewhere between the two figures.