August 28, 2002	Wednesday	Jamadi-us-Saani 18,1423

NEW YORK, Aug 27: The family of a man missing since the Sept 11 attacks on the World Trade Center has found him suffering from amnesia in a health care facility in New York, a newspaper said on Tuesday.

George Sims of Newark, New Jersey, was among 90 people listed as “missing” by the New York medical examiner’s office after the attacks.

According to Newark’s Star Ledger newspaper, Sims was reported lost in early October by his family members, who believed he was in the vicinity of the World Trade Center when the twin towers collapsed.

As the first anniversary of the Sept 11 tragedy loomed, Sims’s family had all but given up hope of seeing him again.

But earlier this month they received a call from a New York health center that believed Sims was a patient.

After faxing a photograph which confirmed his identity, the family and Sims had something of a bittersweet reunion.

“He’s alive, but he’s not in the best of health,” his mother, Anna Sims, told the Star Ledger.

“When I saw him, he did not know me. He did not know his daughter. He did not know his brother,” she said, adding that her son had been diagnosed with amnesia and schizophrenia.—AFP