After 16 Years, Another 9/11 Victim Identified

Almost 16 years after the 9/11 attacks, another family has been given the news that the remains of their loved one have been identified. New York City's medical examiner said Monday that the man has been identified as the 1,641st person killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, PIX11 reports. The medical examiner's office says the man's name is being withheld by request of his family. This is the first time another victim has been identified since March 2015, when Matthew David Yarnell, a 26-year-old who worked on the 97th floor of the South Tower, was identified with the help of DNA, the New York Daily News reports.

The 1,641th victim was identified through DNA retesting of remains recovered from the site, reports NBC News. Out of the 2,753 people killed in the New York attacks, 1,112, or around 40%, are still unidentified, but the medical examiner's office says it plans to keep using the most modern methods to identify as many as possible. The medical examiner's office says it has been retesting remains found during the original recovery operation at Ground Zero. (The last surviving rescue dog from the scene got a hero's goodbye before she was euthanized last year.)