Posted on 07/10/2005 7:45:34 AM PDT by areafiftyone
(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) A Bronx man who moved abroad after the September 11 attacks was among those missing in London after the transit bombings there.
According to his friends and relatives, 37-year-old Michael Matsushita, formerly of the Riverdale section, has not been heard from since Thursday when he left for work. He normally takes a subway that passes through London's King's Cross station, the site of one of three of the train bombings.
Matsushita's fiancee, Rosie Cowan, told The Evening Standard of London that they met while working as international tour guides in Vietnam, and recently moved together to England.
A woman who identified herself as his aunt, Eileen Matsushita, said outside the family's Bronx apartment building today that she was ``optimistic'' that he will found alive.
A spokesman for the U.S. State Department said he had no information on Matsushita. U.S. officials have said that at least four Americans were injured in the blasts.
Matsushita's former neighbors in New York described him as bright and well-liked.
Running wont help. When your number comes up in that big lotto in the sky , youre going away from here.
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