New York Post article on WTC remains, Oct 2006

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document MORE BONES AT WTC New York Post Sunday, October 22, 2006 nypost.com Workers found 15 more pieces of human remains in this corner of the World Trade Center Site yesterday. Found in manholes By HASANI GITTENS More human body. parts were found at the World Trade Center site yesterday as workers examined several manholes, officials said. This latest discovery came during a new search for mare remains of 9/ll victims tbat began after Con Ed workers unknowingly earthed dozens of bones at Ground Zero on Thursday. Yesterday, the searchers removed debris from the manholes by hand after ex cavation teams had torn into the pavement on a service road along the site's wester border. The debris was then sifted on site by forensic experts, Deputy Mayor Edward Skyler said. The city was initiallyonly going to search through six minholes and subterranean pockets, but that was ex- panded to 10 after blueprints revealed the existence of more cavities than previ- ously expected. The search will go on through said next week, Skyler The newfound bones and fragments have ranged in size from a "little under an inch to over 12 inches [and in body parts froml the ex- hanniies- tommiss crane hands - to bones and vertebrae cranial said Eilen Borakove, a spokes- woman for the city's medical examiner. She added that forensic testing would begin this Found were 15 pieces of human remains bringing the total to % for the week, officials said. NYC-WTC_000143426 week in an attempt to de termine exactlyhowmany victims the remains be longed to. "Were going to extract DNA, the same as we've been doing with all of the re- mains from the beginning. and we're going to try our best to identify as many, if not all, of the remains as we can," Borakove said More than 40 percent of the 2,749 people killed on Sept. Il, 2001, in New York City remain unidentified to this day. Officials said some victims" relatives were already call ing for the federal govern- ment to lead a new search for any further remains in and around Ground Zero. An earlier search ended in 2002 - after a cleanup of 15 million tons of debris. The southwest corner of Ground Zero remained a crime scene yesterday, as cops and construction work- ers identified manholes and underground cable boxes for re-inspection by hand On Wednesday, an eagle eyed hardhat removing de bris from around a Con Ed cable box noticed two 8-to-10-inch bones amid pie that he was about to aeap onto a truck Those remains were later identified as an arm and a leg bone More bones, a wallet and other personal effects were found when workers further examined debris taken to a Con Ed operating station on West 29th Street. With Georgett Roberts and Post Wire Services [email protected] 3