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9/11's Last Victim?

By LIFS March 12, 2008 at 12:56 AM

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A New York Court has ruled that an Indian doctor missing since Sept. 10, 2001, died while trying to save lives at the Twin Towers.

In 2004, the Medical Examiner's Office had removed Sneha Philip's name from the official list of World Trade Center victims, amidst salacious theories of a wild lifestyle behind her disappearance from her Battery Park City apartment, just two blocks from the WTC site.
"While it is logically possible that she died by some other means on that date, either by random violence or at the hands of someone she met the night before, there is no factual basis in the evidence for that conclusion," Justice David Saxe wrote in his opinion.

"Even without direct proof irrefutably establishing that her route that morning took her past the World Trade Center at the time of the attack, the evidence shows it to be highly probable that she died that morning, and at that site, whereas only the rankest speculation leads to any other conclusion."

Saxe rejected suggestions that Philip "recklessly engaged in extramarital sexual relations with dangerous strangers she met in bars is not a conclusion permitted by the evidence."

A lawyer for her husband told the New York Post: "There's now no question her name will be restored to the official list and that her name will be added to the list of those who died at the memorial, and that's a source of comfort to the family to know that."

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