FILE -- Flowers are seen on the 9/11 Memorial on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York. (Mike Segar/Pool Photo via AP)
New York
Authorities in New York have reportedly identified three new World Trade Center victims nearly 24 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
According to multiple outlets, the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner announced the identifications on Thursday.
Ryan Fitzgerald, Barbara Keating, and an adult woman whose name is being withheld at her family’s request became the latest 9/11 victims positively identified through DNA analysis.
“The pain of losing a loved one in the September 11th terror attacks echoes across the decades, but with these three new identifications, we take a step forward in comforting the family members still aching from that day,” New York Mayor Eric Adams said in a shared statement.
The New York Times reports that Fitzgerald worked as a foreign currency trader at Fiduciary Trust Company International and Keating was killed aboard a jet that crashed into the World Trade Center.
The medical examiner’s office said it has not stopped testing remains recovered from the wreckage, with than 90 percent of the identifications coming through DNA testing.