NYC Identifies 9/11 Victim From Bones Found At WTC Service Road

NYC identifies 9/11 victim from bones found at WTC service road

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5:20 PM EST, November 16, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) _ The city has identified a second Sept. 11 victim from human remains found in the past year buried underneath a service road at the World Trade Center site, officials said Friday.

More than 400 human bone pieces have been recovered from beneath the service road that carried cleanup and construction trucks in and out of the site after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The search at the spot began in October 2006 when utility workers found over 80 bones in a manhole in the service road, and it has since spread to other manholes, underneath a highway and onto nearby rooftops.

The city identified the first victim from remains found in the road in July, along with a victim identified from remains found in an abandoned, contaminated skyscraper across from ground zero.

The family had not authorized the release of the name of the latest victim, the city medical examiner's office said.

More than 1,800 of the 21,000 body parts recovered from ground zero have been found in the last two years in and around the trade center site. Still, more than 40 percent of the 2,749 people killed at the site have not been identified, because the bones recovered were too degraded and damaged by heat and time.

The city has been using updated technology to try and re-extract DNA to make new identifications.