Identifying the remains of 9/11 victims
Ten years later, no remains from 1,121 of the people who died at the World Trade Center—41 percent—have ever been identified. More than 21,000 separate human remains were recovered, and the work of trying to make DNA matches goes on.
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London Telegraph
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The Wall Street Journal