DNA analysis has identified the remains of a man and a woman killed in the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office said.
“We hope that these new identifications can provide some degree of comfort to the families of these victims,” Adams said. The number of deaths from the attack on the World Trade Center whose remains have been identified rose to 1,649. However, 1,104 fatalities remain unidentified.
According to their own statements, the work of the New York medical examiners is “the largest and most complex forensic investigation in the history” of the USA. Accordingly, advances in DNA technology are helping with the investigations. DNA fragments from victims are compared with samples from relatives. Nevertheless, identifications are making very slow progress. The last successful identifications date back two years.
A total of 2,977 people were killed in the attacks on September 11, 2001, carried out by the terrorist network Al-Qaeda using hijacked aircraft: 2,753 in New York, 184 at the US Department of Defense near Washington and 40 in the US state of Pennsylvania. The attacks shook the United States to its core and sent the world power into a decades-long “war on terror.” Every year, the victims of 9/11, as the date is referred to in the USA, are commemorated in ceremonies – and again this Monday.
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2023-09-10 10:20:00
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