- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Recovery
workers began searching for human remains on Friday in the heavily damaged
Deutsche Bank building near the World Trade Center site after New York
City reached an agreement with the bank, a fire department spokesman said
on Saturday.
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- The bank's officials wanted assurances that the removal
of debris from the 40-story building at 130 Liberty Street, across the
street from where the south tower of the World Trade Center had stood,
would not harm the rescue workers and others in the area, The New York
Times said.
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- The remains of about a dozen people were found last week
in two other nearby buildings that had been damaged in the Sept. 11 hijacked
airliner attacks that brought down twin 110-story towers of the World Trade
Center.
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- City officials have estimated that 2,823 people were
killed in the attacks.
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- As part of the pact between the city and the bank, firefighters
and rescue workers will wear protective jumpsuits and respirators as they
search the building whose facade had been pierced by falling steel and
other debris from the attacks.
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- Test results conducted on the building for contaminants
such as mold and asbestos were not yet in, the spokesman said. The search
is expected to take about three weeks to complete, he added.
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