New york: Nearly 24 years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York City officials have identified three more victims of the World Trade Center disaster.

According to Anadolu Agency, the city's medical examiner's office used advanced DNA analysis to confirm the identities of Ryan Fitzgerald from New York, Barbara Keating from California, and a third woman whose name has not been released. Chief Medical Examiner Jason K. Graham stated, "Each new identification testifies to the promise of science and sustained outreach to families despite the passage of time. We continue this work as our way of honoring the lost."

Mayor Eric Adams remarked that this development is "a step forward in comforting the family members still aching from that day," and emphasized that "the pain of losing a loved one in the September 11th terror attacks echoes across the decades."

The recent identifications increase the confirmed toll at the site to 1,653, leaving approximately 1,100 victims of the terrorist al-Qaeda attacks still unidentified. The names of both Fitzgerald and Keating were already inscribed on the 9/11 Memorial at ground zero in New York.