 said. 'We hope these new identifications can bring some measure of comfort to the families of these victims, and the ongoing efforts by the Office of Chief Medical Examiner attest to the city's unwavering commitment to reunite all the World Trade Center victims with their loved ones,' Mayor Eric Adams said. But with 1,104 victims still unidentified, progress has been agonisingly slow. zßThe remains of those individuals yet to be identified are currently being stored at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center site . When the trade centre's south tower, and then its north, collapsed in a deafening roar, raining down a deluge of fire, choking grey dust and twisted steel on the Manhattan streets below, the violence was so extreme that no identifiable trace has been found of hundreds of the missing. The two latest identifications were made possible through the use of 'next-generation sequencing technology – more sensitive and rapid than conventional DNA techniques,' the statement said. Remains of the man and woman had been found years ago. The breakthrough came ahead of the latest commemoration of the 2001 disaster on Monday. The terror attacks saw 19 jihadists, most of them Saudi nationals, hijack four planes.){kind=link}
New York continues with its pledge to return the bodies of all victims of the terror attack on World Trade Center in 2001
Two more victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center have been identified ahead of the 22nd anniversary of the disaster.
The identities of the two, a man and a woman, were established through advanced DNA analysis and are being withheld at the request of their families, authorities said.
The latest identifications are the first since September 2021, officials said. Before that, the last identification was made in 2019.
To date, 1,649 victims have been identified of the 2,753 people who died when two hijacked civilian aircraft were flown into the World Trade Centre twin towers, in New York, the city’s mayor and Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) said.