{UAH} Remains of 9/11 victim identified 16 years after terror attack

Afuwa kasule/ Mike Ocaya p'Ocure,

Here is another identification of a victim  the 9/11 Islamic  terrorist atrocity. 16 years after the event. It goes to show how unrealistic you were to expect the London Metrolpolitan Police to identify all the victims of the Grenfell Tower inferno just days after the event, and even when it was still burning. Fires of up 1,000 C often incinerate body parts, and unfortunately some victims may never be identified. It is estimated that 40% of the 9/11 victims have not yet been identified and may never be identified.

Bobby

Remains of 9/11 victim identified 16 years after terror attack

First new identification since March 2015 made possible by more sensitive DNA technology that tests bone fragments

 Few full bodies were recovered after the giant towers of New York's World Trade Center burned and collapsed. Photograph: Stephen Chernin/AP

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Associated Press

Tuesday 8 August 2017 02.10 BST

The remains of a man killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11 have been identified nearly 16 years after the terror attacks.

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His name was withheld at his family's request, the New York City medical examiner's office said.

The announcement marked the first new identification made since March 2015 in the painstaking, ongoing effort. The office uses DNA testing and other means to match bone fragments to the 2,753 people killed by the hijackers who crashed airplanes into the twin towers on 11 September, 2001.

Remains of 1,641 victims have been identified so far, leaving 40% of those who died unidentified.

New, more sensitive DNA technology was deployed earlier this year and helped make the latest identification after earlier testing produced no results, the medical examiner's office said on Monday.

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As DNA testing advanced, so has the multimillion-dollar effort to connect more than 21,900 pieces of remains to individual victims. Few full bodies were recovered after the giant towers burned and collapsed, and the effects of heat, bacteria and chemicals such as jet fuel made it all the more difficult to analyse the remains.

Over time, the medical examiner's office came to use a process that involves pulverizing the fragments to extract DNA, then comparing it to the office's collection of genetic material from victims or their relatives. Most of the DNA profiles generated belong to previously identified victims.

In some cases, scientists have gone back to the same bone fragment 10 or more times, hoping new technology will provide answers.

The 9/11 airliner attacks killed a total of nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

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