NYC medical examiner identifies two additional 9/11 victims days before 20th anniversary
By Celine Castronuovo - 09/07/21 07:40 PM EDT
New York City’s chief medical examiner announced Tuesday that her office had identified two additional victims in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, just days before the 20th anniversary.
Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson said in a press release that Dorothy Morgan of Hempstead, N.Y., and an unnamed man, whose identity is being withheld at the request of his family, were the latest confirmed victims from the disaster that took the lives of more than 2,700 people at the World Trade Center.
The New York Times reported that Morgan, who disappeared into the rubble of the collapsed Twin Towers nearly 20 years ago, worked as an insurance broker in the World Trade Center.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 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 testing of remains recovered since the 2001 attacks, said the latest individuals bring the total number of victims identified through DNA analysis following the attacks to 1,647.
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