Victims’ remains found four years after 9/11

Merideth Call CAL05009@BYUI.EDU scroll staff

More than four years after the attack, 10 bone fragments were discovered on a building near the now vacant World Trade Center lot this past September.

According to a recent Associated Press article, construction workers were sifting through some gravel on top the Deutsche Bank when the pieces were found.

New York City’s medical examiner, Ellen Borakove, will try to identify the remains by extracting DNA and checking it with a database of WTC victims.

The city has recovered 19,964 pieces of human remains and identified 9,100 of them, Borakove said.

1,152 have no identifiable remains.

Mary Fetchet, whose son died at the south tower, said the discovery reopens old wounds.

“It’s just a reminder of the horrific nature of the event,” she said. “When you talk about identification of bone fragments, it just brings you back to what really happened that day.”