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Indian doctor included in attack victims’ list

New York: An Indian-born doctor missing since the day before 9/11 was restored to the city’s official death toll from the terrorist attacks, months after an appeals court declared there was no other plausible explanation for her disappearance.

The city medical examiner’s office yesterday said that Sneha Anne Philip, 31, was among 2,751 victims killed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

She had been cut from the list in 2004 by officials who said they could not definitively link her to the site because she did not work there and disappeared a day earlier.

The family of the Indian-born doctor went to court, and on January 31 the State Supreme Court’s appellate division determined that she had died at the trade center and asked that her name be returned to the list.

Sneha Anne Philip, a resident physician at a Staten Island hospital, was last seen on videotape buying shoes and lingerie at a department store across from the trade center on September 10, 2001.

Investigators once thought she could have been a victim of another crime, or had disappeared on her own to escape troubles with her marriage and alcohol.

Her family believed she may have attended a party held by the city’s South Asian community in a hotel in the trade center complex on September 10, and died while helping wounded people in front of the towers before they collapsed. — AP

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