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The memorial at the former World Trade Center site in New York City. Credit: Viktoria Sundqvist<\/p>\nThe memorial at the former World Trade Center site in New York City. Credit: Viktoria Sundqvist<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been almost 24 years since the terrorist attacks of 9\/11<\/a>, yet more than a thousand victims from that day have never been properly identified.\u00a0<\/p>\n The attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the hijacked Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 11, 2001, resulted in 2,976 deaths<\/a>. Of those, 161 victims were from Connecticut<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n So far, only about 60 percent of the 2,753 remains from the World Trade Center attack have been identified, officials said, leaving 1,653 human remains not yet linked with a name. It is unclear if any of the unidentified remains belong to anyone from Connecticut.<\/p>\n Finding answers for the families who lost loved ones on 9\/11 is an effort some have called \u201cthe greatest forensic challenge ever undertaken in this country.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n In August 2025, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in New York announced three new identifications<\/a>: Ryan Fitzgerald of Floral Park, N.Y., Barbara Keating of Palm Springs, Calif., and an adult woman whose name is being withheld at the request of family. It\u2019s the first time new identifications were made since January 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n