New York Post

He’s the luckiest unlucky person

- Jennifer Bain and Stephanie Pagones

Most people would call Tahir Qureshi unlucky.

But Qureshi — who was injured in both the 9/11 attack and in Thursday’s Hoboken train crash — believes otherwise.

“I feel blessed. I’m very lucky to be alive,” Qureshi (above), a 42-year-old father of three from New Milford, NJ, told The Post Thursday.

On Sept. 11, 2001, he was walking through the front door of the World Trade Center when the first hijacked plane struck his offices at Marsh & McLennan on the 98th floor of the north tower.

That time, he escaped with smoke inhalation and bruises, he said.

Marsh & McLennan lost nearly 300 people.

Qureshi was again on his way to work — this time at the company’s new headquarte­rs in Hoboken — and was standing in the front of his train when disaster struck Thursday.

“The whole roof collapsed and pinned us,” he said.

Qureshi survived with nothing worse than a bruised knee.

“It happened now twice to be in a situation. It’s just one of those blessings that I’m OK,” he said.

As with 9/11, his family members watched in horror as the news unfolded on TV, unable to reach him for hours.

“She’s terrified right now,” his brother, Shadid, 49, said earlier Thursday of their mother while waiting to hear from Qureshi.

“It’s a miracle,” said his wife, Fatima, 38. “A miracle twice happened.”

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