9/11 Victim Identified Nearly 18 Years After Attacks

LOWER MANHATTAN, NY — Nearly 18 years after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, officials have identified another victim, the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner announced.

The woman is the 1,644th person to be identified, the OCME said.

A spokeswoman for the OCME said the woman was identified through DNA testing of her remains that were recovered in 2002.

The woman's family has requested that her name be withheld.

She is the second World Trade Center victim to be identified this year.

In June, officials identified a man whose remains were recovered in 2013 near the Deutsche Bank building, the New York Daily News reported.

More than 1,100 — 40 percent of those who died — have not yet been identified, according to the OCME.

The woman's identification comes as two more retired FDNY members died of illnesses related to World Trade Center toxins breathed in at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the terror attacks in 2001, AMNewYork reported. The paper wrote Kevin Nolan and Richard Driscoll were the 199th and 200th FDNY members to die of WTC-related illnesses.