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New York City Identifies Three Additional 9/11 Victims, Total Reaches 1,653

Officials credit next-generation DNA sequencing, bolstered by family reference samples, with enabling decades-late identifications

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, United Airlines Flight 175 collides into the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York as smoke billows from the north tower. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong, file)
Three More 9/11 Victims Identified 24 Years Later

Overview

  • Officials confirmed the remains of Ryan Fitzgerald, Barbara Keating and an unnamed woman as the 1,651st through 1,653rd World Trade Center victims to be identified
  • Fitzgerald, 26, was working as a foreign currency trader on the 94th floor of the South Tower when it was struck
  • Keating, 72, was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 en route to Palm Springs when terrorists crashed it into the North Tower
  • The new matches bring the identified total to 1,653 of the 2,753 who died at the World Trade Center, leaving roughly 1,100 remains still unidentified
  • City officials say advancements in DNA sequencing and sustained outreach to families for fresh reference samples are driving the ongoing identification effort