US forensic scientists use new method to identify 9/11 victims

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On Aug 24, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city’s medical examiner’s office announced the identification of a 9/11 victim using a new forensic method. This marked the first such identification in nearly 12 months, bringing the total number of identified victims to more than 1,600. The discovery followed nearly 25 years of testing and retesting human remains recovered from the site of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

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The implementation of this new forensic method may facilitate the identification of additional victims from the remaining unidentified bone fragments. This development provides a continued mechanism for the city’s medical examiner’s office to process long-standing forensic evidence from the 2001 attack.

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