World News
New York continues push to identify remains of September 11 victims
Forensic advances aid ongoing efforts to identify remains from Ground Zero, BBC News reports.
The short version
- New York officials are using forensic investigative genetic genealogy to identify remains from the September 11 attacks, having recently identified the 1,654th victim.[BBC News]
- Around 60 percent of the 2,753 people killed at the World Trade Center have been identified so far.[BBC News]
- More than 1,000 victims, including Dennis Scauso, remain unidentified due to severe damage to remains caused by crashes and fires.[BBC News]
Key facts
- The city announced the identification of the 1,654th victim using forensic investigative genetic genealogy.[BBC News]
- Sixty percent of the 2,753 victims killed at the World Trade Center have been identified to date.[BBC News]
- Over 1,000 people killed in New York on September 11, including Dennis Scauso, remain unidentified.[BBC News]
- Fires and plane crash damage left only fragments of victims available for DNA extraction.[BBC News]
What remains uncertain
- Whether degraded DNA fragments from the remaining unidentified victims will yield conclusive matches under newer genetic technologies remains unresolved.[BBC News]
Sources
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