New York adds post-9/11 death to World Trade Center toll

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — New York City has for the first time officially linked the death of a Manhattan office worker to exposure to toxic dust from the World Trade Center collapse in 2001, US media reported Thursday.

Felicia Dunn-Jones, 42, was coated in lethal dust as she escaped from her lower Manhattan office near the towers which were struck by Al-Qaeda-hijacked passenger planes on September 11, 2001, the New York Times said.

The civil rights lawyer later developed a serious cough and had difficulty breathing. She died five months after the attack.

New York Citys chief medical examiner, Charles Hirsch, "decided to amend Mrs. Dunn-Jones' death certificate to indicate that exposure to trade center dust 'was contributory to her death'," the paper said.

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