Just three days before the tribute to the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, two victims of the New York attacks were officially identified thanks to new genetic sequencing technology.
The head of the New York forensic service clarified that her laboratory recognized the 1.646th and 1.647th victims who lost their lives at the World Trade Center.
A total of 2.753 people were killed when an al-Qaeda-linked group dropped two fighter jets on the Manhattan Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Among them, 1.106 remain to be officially identified, or 40% of the people killed in New York.
"Twenty years ago, we promised the families of the victims of the World Trade Center that we would do whatever it took, for as long as it took, to recognize their loved ones. "With these two new recognitions, we continue to fulfill this sacred obligation," said Dr. Barbara Samson, the head of the forensic service of the big city, according to the American network CBS News.
The identity of the victims
The first victim was a woman, Dorothy Morgan, a resident of Long Island, whose remains were found in 2001 and underwent genetic testing.
The second victim was a man whose remains were found in 2001, 2002 and 2006 and his identity will not be made public, because that is the wish of his family.
According to Ms. Samson, the process and techniques used for two decades to identify all the victims of the WTC attack are part of the "largest and most complex forensic investigation in history" in the United States.
Its continuation is expected to be facilitated by a new DNA sequencing technology, the so-called new generation, according to the New York forensic service.
Source: in.gr