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    Another 9/11 victim identified through DNA testing 17 years later

    DNA testing has led to the identification of another victim of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City as efforts to return remains to loved ones continue 17 years after the tragedy, according to Time.

    Scott Michael Johnson was a 26-year-old securities analyst at an investment banking company, according to CBS. He is the 1,642nd person to be identified among the estimated 3,000 killed when hijackers crashed two planes into the Twin Towers and the first person to be identified by the New York City medical examiner’s office in about a year.