911遇難者身份16年後被確認

The remains of a man killed in the terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, have been identified nearly 16 years after the deadly attacks.

The city medical examiners' office announced the finding Monday but is withholding the man's name at the request of his family.

It is the first new identification made since March 2015.

Remains of 1,641 victims have been identified so far. That means 40 percent of those who died that day have yet to have any remains identified.

New, more sensitive DNA technology was deployed earlier this year and helped make the latest identification after earlier testing produced no results, the medical examiner's office said.

Nearly 22,000 human samples recovered from Ground Zero have been tested and retested since 2001 in an effort to return the remains to the families.

The 9/11 airliner attacks killed a total of nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.2001年在紐約世貿中心911恐怖襲擊中遇難的一位男子的身份將近16年後得到確認。

紐約法醫辦公室星期一宣佈了這一消息，但是應家屬要求，沒有公佈死者姓名。

這是2015年3月以來確認的首例911遇難者身份。

到目前爲止，已經有1641名遇難者身份得到確認，這就意味着還有40%的遇難者身份不明。

紐約法醫辦公室說，今年早些時候，他們開始採用更新的，更敏感的DNA技術，這才完成了以前無法完成的確認工作。

爲了將遇難者的遺骸送還給他們的家人，2001年以來，紐約法醫辦公室已經對世貿遺址發現的近2萬2千個人體採樣進行反覆測試。

911恐怖襲擊事件在紐約、華盛頓附近的五角大樓和賓夕法尼亞州的尚克維爾鎮附近共造成近3千人喪生。