Higher 9-11 Death Toll Raises Questions (Dying First Responders to be counted)

Thursday, May 24, 2007 Print This | Email This

Higher 9-11 Death Toll Raises Questions
AMY WESTFELDT Associated Press Writer

(AP) - NEW YORK-Family members of ground zero workers who died after breathing in toxic dust from the collapsed World Trade Center say they want their relatives officially recognized as victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The official list of victims grew by one this week after the city agreed to include a New York attorney who died of lung disease months after the attack, confusing Sept. 11 family members about what distinguished this death from the scores of others attributed to the aftermath.

The city medical examiner's office said Thursday that Felicia Dunn-Jones' death was the only Sept. 11-related fatality it has been asked to review and definitively link to the twin towers' collapse. In the future, spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said, the medical examiner will review any case if a family makes such a request.


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