More remains found at World Trade Centre site
Workers digging up a road at the World Trade Centre site in a search for remains of 9/11 terror attack victims have found two more bones.
The remains, about one to two inches long, were found yesterday during excavation of the street-level service road on the west end of the lower Manhattan site, said Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the city medical examiner’s office.
The bones, along with four recovered last week, were the first to be found in the dirt and debris that make up the road, which carries dozens of construction trucks a day into ground zero. More than 200 other remains have been found in several manholes beneath the road since October.
City officials overseeing the search announced on Friday they would dig up three-quarters of the road, which runs about four blocks, to locate additional human remains from victims of the September 11, 2001 attack.
They also said they would partially search other sections of the road located closer to the site of a planned 1,776-foot skyscraper to replace the twin towers.
Heavy construction of the Freedom Tower has been under way for months.
The medical examiner’s office said it hopes to match DNA profiles to some of the bones that are being recovered, perhaps to identify some 40% of the 2,749 people killed, whose families have never received remains.
Borakove said yesterday that none of the remains located at ground zero since October – and none of the more than 700 remains found in the past year at a nearby skyscraper – has been positively identified.
Officials overseeing ground zero have said they will keep one lane of traffic open on the road during the excavation to prevent construction delays.
A transit hub and a September 11 memorial are also under construction.
