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by i24 News
The September 11, 2001, terror attack on the World Trade Center. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
i24 News – Two new victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in New York have been identified through DNA analysis.
The announcement comes from New York’s Bureau of Forensic Medicine, as the city prepares to commemorate the twenty-second anniversary of the tragedy.
The identification of these two victims, a man and a woman, brings the total number of deaths to at least 2,977 in the al-Qaeda attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Of these, 1,649 victims have been formally identified.
Out of respect for the families, their identities have not been made public.
“We hope these new identifications will bring some comfort to the victims’ families, and the efforts of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner demonstrate the city’s unwavering commitment to reuniting all World Trade Center victims with their loved ones,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday.
The immense blast caused by the collapse of the two 1,300-feet-high skyscrapers after the attack, the chaos of dust and the thousands of tons of steel, glass and metal, made it impossible to identify the DNA of hundreds of victims who disappeared under the rubble.
A new-generation sequencing technique had recently been employed for these identifications. The method, which is more sensitive and faster than traditional DNA techniques, is also used by the U.S. military.
