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Plumes of smoke pour from the World Trade Center towers in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. AP/Press Association Images

9/11 victim identified nearly 14 years on from attack

Matthew David Yarnell was aged 26 when he died.

NEARLY 14 YEARS after the September 11 attacks on New York, the remains of a victim from the neighboring state of New Jersey has finally been identified.

The New York medical examiner identified the man as Matthew David Yarnell, who was aged 26 when he died in the Al-Qaeda attacks that destroyed the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.

Yarnell was identified by new DNA tests conducted on human remains recovered during original operations at the ruins of the World Trade Center in 2001 and 2002.

Only 60 percent of the 2,753 people missing and believed dead in the New York attacks have been formally identified.

Yarnell’s identification brings the total number identified to 1,640.

There have been no identifications of 1,113 missing people and 7,703 of the samples of human remains cannot be identified.

Tests are ongoing on the remains and developments in science in recent years have helped make new identifications.

© AFP 2015

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    Apr 10th 2022, 4:45 PM

    Ignore all Sean Murphy posts, he’s either insane or extremely bored and only fix he gets is posting Pro Russian stuff.

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    Apr 10th 2022, 8:34 PM

    It seems strange that the Russians are going out of their way to lay waste to the new republics that they’ve recognised, and making all the ethnic Russians homeless. Methinks Putin didn’t give a hoot about the ethnic Russians in the first place. He certainly is an overly large part of the body that excretes faecal matter, there’s no question.

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    Apr 10th 2022, 9:13 PM

    @E.J. Murray: you are so right, he would not be doing this to them if he did.Mariupol has a high Russian speaking population also which are living in a hell underground for the last 6 weeks.
    He is an absolute beyond evil human being as are some of his shoulders the way they have treated civilians.

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