Smoke pours from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack in New York City, Sept. 11, 2001.
Two victims who perished in the World Trade Center have been identified more than two decades after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York City's chief medical examiner said Friday.
The names of the victims, a man and a woman, are being withheld at the request of their families, officials said.
They are the 1,648th and 1,649th victims whose remains have been identified since 2001.
Dr. Jason Graham, New York City's chief medical examiner, described the painstaking effort to identify the victims' remains as "the largest and most complex forensic investigation" in U.S. history.
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