Doubt Over Claims Of 9/11 'Survivor'

An alleged victim of the September 11 terror attacks has been kicked out of a survivors group after growing doubts about her story.

Tania Head said she had been badly burned on the 78th floor of the south tower.

She claimed she had been saved by a man who died trying to help - and said a dying man handed her his inscribed wedding ring, which she later returned to his widow.

Ms Head also said her husband, or in some accounts her fiance, died in the north tower.

The board of the non-profit survivors' organisation has now removed her as president and director.
A statement on the group's website read: "Tania Head is no longer associated with the World Trade Centre Survivors' Network.

"Our organisation was created so that those affected by the terrorist attacks could help each other through crisis and its aftermath."

Ms Head has also stopped leading tours of the World Trade Centre site, where in the past she has shown around former New York City mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani.

Jennifer Adams, the Tribute Centre's CEO, said: "At this time, we are unable to confirm the veracity of Tania Head's connection to the events of September 11."

The New York Times reported that none of her claims had been verified and said Merrill Lynch & Company, where Ms Head told people she had worked, had no record of her employment.

The paper said Ms Head argued she had done nothing illegal and had not filed any claim with the federal Victim Compensation Fund.

On the fifth anniversary of the attacks, Ms Head said: "It was like King Kong had come up and basically taken a chunk out of the north tower.
"Black smoke was billowing out into the blue sky. It was such a contrast, I'll never be able to forget it."

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