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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on January 19, 2024, 07:48:41 pm
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Remains of new dad killed in 9/11 attacks identified thanks to DNA breakthrough
By Social Links for Melissa Koenig
Published Jan. 19, 2024, 1:35 p.m. ET
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The remains of a new dad killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11 have finally been identified more than two decades later — thanks to groundbreaking new DNA technology.
John Ballantine Niven, 44, of Oyster Bay, Long Island, was on the 105th floor of the South Tower when he was killed on that fateful Tuesday — leaving behind his wife and 18-month-old son.
The new father was the senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions at Aon Risk Services.
His remains have been positively identified using breakthrough DNA sequencing technology, along with a mitochondrial DNA analysis and other procedures that have been refined since the 2001 terror attack, New York City officials announced Thursday.
“It is certainly emotional for me, and I’m sure many others, to hear many years later that DNA has been found,” Niven’s widow, Ellen, told the Associated Press.
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