The New York City chief forensic doctor announced Tuesday that his office had identified two additional victims in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, just days before its twentieth anniversary.
No forensic doctor Barbara Sampson said in a press release that Dorothy Morgan, of Hempstead, New York, and an unnamed man, whose identity is being withheld at the request of her family, were the latest confirmed victims of the disaster that ended the lives of more than 2,700 people at the World Trade Center.
The New York Times reported that Morgan, who disappeared among the ruins of the collapsed twin towers nearly 20 years ago, was working as an insurance broker at the World Trade Center.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the September 11 attacks, when terrorists hijacked planes and crashed them into the World Trace Center and the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania.
Sampson, whose office has been conducting DNA tests of remains recovered since the 2001 attacks, said the latest individuals bring the total number of victims identified by DNA analysis after the attacks to 1,647.
“Twenty years ago, we made a promise to the families of the victims of the World Trade Center to do whatever it takes to identify their loved ones, and with these two new identifications, we continue to fulfill this sacred obligation.” Sampson said in a statement Tuesday.
“No matter how much time passes since September 11, 2001, we will never forget it and we are committed to using all the tools at our disposal to ensure that all those who were lost could reunite with their families. “, added.
Sampson said the last two identified victims are the first confirmed new ones since October 2019, with 1,106 victims, or about 40%, as yet unidentified.
The forensic office said it hopes to identify even more of the people who died at the World Trade Center through the recent adoption of up-to-date sequencing technology that has been used by the U.S. military to identify remains of service members. of the United States disappeared.
Mark Desire, deputy director of the office’s forensic biology department and manager of the World Trade Center’s DNA identification team, said in a statement that researchers “continue to push science out of necessity to make more identifications.”
“Today’s commitment is as strong as it was in 2001,” he added.
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