"Denny" wrote in message
ups.com...
One would expect that most
of the bodies of the victims killed in the collapse would have
still been largely in one piece when the dust settled, leaving
concentrated pockets of remains to be exhumed later.

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You can expect that but you will be wrong... The bodies were as
throroughly ground up as if you had put them through a sausage
grinder... The resulting pulp was thoroughly mixed with an alkali and
tossed like a dinner salad with tens of millions of pounds of other
material.. No visible body parts for the excavating machine operators
to notice as they were scooping...

denny


Well around 280 complete bodies were recovered as I recall and
the forensic teams report recovering and analysing
the DNA of some 14249 body parts that were recovered

Keith