How are human remains “unidentifiable”?

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I feel like this is stupid question and I just can’t brain today but here goes…

This came about while I was reading about 9/11 earlier (am not American) but I’m now questioning a lot of things. Anyway, I read there’s still something like 1,000 human remains yet to be identified from that day; so how does that work in any case? If we know who is unaccounted for and there are bodies, why can’t they be matched up?

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The collapse of the building was incredibly destructive to human beings. Some bodies were basically torn apart. They’ve used DNA analysis to identify as much as they can, even very small pieces. But sometimes the DNA was damaged and sometimes they have pieces that don’t match any of the DNA they have on file.

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