The family of a Jordanian who went missing in the September 11 airborne terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center said Monday they would hold a memorial mass after having lost their relative would turn up alive.
Ramzi Attallah Doany, 35, worked for an audit company on the 100th floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center when it was hit in the first of a series of suicide plane bombings on the United States.
"We have not been officially notified of his death but all the information we got shows that he passed away in the first hit on the World Trade Center," Doany's brother Ibrahim told AFP.
"We received a letter from his company saying he was in his office when the attack occurred, and my sister is now in New York applying for a death certificate," Ibrahim Doany said.
The family will hold a memorial service for Ramzi at Al-Fadi church in Amman on Thursday, he said, adding that his brother had returned to New York from a working trip to London only four days before the terror attack.
Jordanian-American Robert Elias Talhami, 36, who worked for the brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald is also among the missing after the attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC).
Cantor Fitzgerald has said nearly 700 employees who worked in the north tower were missing.
Two other Jordanians, one on the 45th floor of the first tower, and another on his way to the WTC at the moment it collapsed, were injured and hospitalized, according to the Jordanian embassy in Washington.
The number of people reported dead or missing in the United States following the terror attacks which also targeted the Pentagon outside Washington is now running at 5,700 -- AMMAN (AFP)
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