September 11: Two new victims identified, 22 years after the terrorist attack

mourning More than a thousand victims have still not been identified due to the violence of the collapse of the twin towers

The ruins of the two towers of the World Trade Center, after the attacks of September 11. — AFP

Twenty-two years after the jihadist attacks of September 11, 2001 against the United States, the remains of two victims killed in the towers of the World Trade Center in New York New York could be identified thanks to DNA, announced the authorities. The identities of the two victims, a man and a woman, have not been determined. revealed to family demand. They relate to 1,649 the number of people whose remains were destroyed identified, out of a total of 2,753 deaths, specified The New York Office of Forensic Medicine (OCME).

“We hope that these new identifications will bring some comfort to the victims’ families, and the efforts of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner attest to that.” unwavering commitment of the city to reunite all the victims of the World Trade Center with their loved ones,” said Friday the mayor of the city, Democrat Eric Adams, in a press release.

A new sequencing technique

1,104 victims have still not been able to be identified, and the last two identifications dated back to 2021. When the south tower, then the north tower, of the World Trade Center collapsed after the attack, the violence of the deluge of fire, steel and dust was such that no trace was left. DNA has never been found for hundreds of deaths.

The two new identifications were found for hundreds of deaths.

The two new identifications were found for hundreds of deaths. made possible thanks to; a “recently adopted next-generation sequencing technology – more sensitive and faster than conventional DNA techniques” and used in particular by the American army, explains the OCME.