McKinney couple added to list of missing at WTC
Posted on 09/08/2002 3:00:57 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
McKinney couple added to list of missing at WTC
09/08/2002
Nearly a year after terrorists attacked New York City's World Trade Center, officials there remain immersed in the task of revising and updating the list of missing and dead.
Wednesday, Kacinga Kabeya and his wife, Kapinga Ngalula Congolese citizens who had been living in McKinney with their daughter were added to the roll of those missing at the World Trade Center.
"I'm going through a lot right now, and it's very painful to keep talking about it over and over," the couple's daughter, Kiki Kabeya, said Saturday during a brief phone interview. "It's not much that I can say right now."
Ms. Kabeya declined to say much more about her parents, but she told The Associated Press that her parents had been in the United States for the last seven years under asylum status.
They were in New York on vacation to see the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center at the time of the attacks. Although the family has submitted DNA samples to authorities and applied for death certificates, those certificates have not been issued.
Mr. Kabeya, 63, had been sick and was unemployed when he went to New York, but his daughter said he had previously worked as a bell ringer for the Salvation Army. A Salvation Army employee, however, could find no record Saturday of Mr. Kabeya's having worked for the agency. Ms. Ngalulu did not work outside the home.
According to Congolese custom, a funeral cannot be conducted without some part of the deceased's body. Ms. Kabeya said Saturday that she plans to go to New York at some point, "but right now, I don't know when."
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How does a unemployed bell ringer for the Salvation Army (SA has no record of him) and an unemployed wife, show up dead a yr. later?
How does a unemployed bell ringer for the Salvation Army (SA has no record of him) and an unemployed wife, show up dead a yr. later?
And how do they afford to visit NYC? I go every year because I'm a "theater-geek" and it ain't cheap.
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