9/11 victim identified 16 years after attack

Another victim of the 9/11 terror attack has been identified 16 years after planes struck the World Trade Centre.

The man, whose identity is being held at the request of his family, is the 1,641st person to be identified following the 2011 attack.

He was one of 2,753 people killed when two planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York.

The latest victim is the first to be identified since March 2015.

The man's identity was determined by New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which had been re-testing DNA recovered in 2001.

Some 1,112 people (40 per cent) of people who died in the attack remain unidentified.