Authorities have identified the remains of two more victims ahead of the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. DNA analysis has identified the remains of a man and a woman killed in the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, according to Mayor Eric Adams and the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office.
“We hope these new identifications can provide some 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.
Thanks to DNA analysis
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 US. Accordingly, advances in DNA technology are aiding in the investigations.
DNA fragments from victims are compared with samples from family members. Nevertheless, identifications are progressing very slowly. The last successful identifications date from two years ago.
The attacks on September 11, 2001 killed 2,977 people
The attacks of September 11, 2001, carried out by the terrorist network Al-Qaeda using hijacked aircraft, killed a total of 2,977 people: 2,753 in New York, 184 at the US Department of Defense near Washington and 40 in the US Washington state. Pennsylvania.
The attacks shook the US 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 known in the US, are commemorated with ceremonies – and again this Monday.
Source: Krone
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