“Unaccounted for” could certainly mean dead...but it could mean other things too.
How many just walked away from whatever demons they had in their life, just to have a relative cash in on whatever grants the government will offer? How many walked away from 9/11?
Unaccounted for people, would be those who live there, but haven’t been heard from. Let’s hope and pray they were away, on vacation, at work, or otherwise just not at home when this happened.
Sadly, I’m sure they will find more dead in the rubble.
The pictures remind me of the Oklahoma City bombing pictures.