The body of one Guyanese in the September 11 World Trade Center terrorist attack was recovered and buried and another person was reported missing yesterday.

These two cases bring to 23, the number of Guyanese dead or missing.

Confirmed dead is Pamela Boyce, 43, an assistant vice president for accounting of Carr Futures, which was located on the 92nd floor of one of the towers. Missing is Vernon Asregado, who worked on the 107th floor in one of the towers.

Information supplied to the Guyana Embassy in Washington said that Boyce resided in Brooklyn and was the daughter of Noel Boyce, who worked with Pan Am and niece of Teddy Boyce, who worked with the Guyana National Trading Corporation and Guyana Airways, and Barbara Boyce who worked at the Singer Company. Pamela Boyce's body was recovered and buried on Monday.

Guyana's Consul General in New York, Brentnol Evans, confirmed that Asregado had been reported missing. He said he was checking for further details.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a release issued yesterday advised that persons who wished to obtain information about relatives or friends believed to have been killed or missing as a result of the tragedy could obtain the necessary forms from its Public Affairs and Information Unit at Takuba Lodge, South Road.

The forms were supplied by the New York City Commission for the United Nations, Consular Corps, and Protocol. They are to be completed and returned to the ministry which would then forward them, via the New York Consulate, to the Family Center set up by the New York City authorities to collect information to assist family members and friends of victims of the tragedy.

The forms require relatives and friends to provide detailed information about the missing person such as height, weight, medical and dental history and distinguishing marks.

Evans told Stabroek News on Wednesday that many of the missing persons might have to be identified from the body parts found at the scene using DNA samples. Stabroek News has received reports that the temperatures on the upper floors of the World Trade Center reached 2,000 degrees and that body parts were being found as far as six blocks away from where the original impact occurred.

One particular building, in which a regular contributor to this newspaper's letters column worked, had all its windows blown out on all sides from the 15th storey downwards. Most of the furniture and equipment were not salvageable; and everything was covered in upwards of six inches of the soot.

Meanwhile, incidents of anti-Muslim violence continued. A WABC television news report said on Wednesday that a Queens teenager, who asked not be identified, said he was attacked last weekend.

The teenager, who did not want to be named, but said his family was from Guyana and had also been threatened, told WABC: "One guy came out and hit me for no reason, just because I was on my family's front steps, and he just kept on throwing hate remarks and just threatening me."

Evans said that he had heard of the report and was checking it out.