Suicide ‘was Bush protest’

A MAN who shot himself at the World Trade Center site was apparently distraught over US President George W Bush’s re-election, a newspaper reported yesterday.

The body of 25-year-old Andrew Veal of Athens, Georgia, was found yesterday morning inside the off-limits site.

A shotgun was found nearby, but no suicide note was found.

Veal’s mother said her son was upset about the result of the election and had driven to New York, the New York Times reported.

“I’m absolutely sure it’s a protest,” Mary Anne Mauney, Veal’s supervisor at the University of Georgia’s computer laboratory, told newspapers.