WTC search could expand

Citing an anonymous source, the AP said the roads are located near the former Deutsche Bank building and areas south of the site where a church stood. The World Trade Center site will not be part of a new search effort, the report said. Meanwhile, workers collected nine pieces of human remains yesterday from underground utility holes during a search that began last week, the medical examiner's office said.

The call to expand the search did little yesterday to please Monica Gabrielle, who lost her husband Richard, in the Sept. 11 attacks. Gabrielle, who like many other victims' families, has urged the city to bring in military experts to help with the search, said Mayor Michael Bloomberg must search the footprint of the towers in addition to the surrounding areas.

"Why don't they do the right thing and have professionals come in there, do what they have to do to make sure there are no more remains so that we can honor the dead and bury them instead of cementing over them?" Gabrielle said. She said if a comprehensive search isn't done today, the possibility exists that new remains could be discovered somewhere else years later.

"It's not too late to do the right thing, and you know what, it's not too late to have accountability either," she said. Before the report's contents were leaked yesterday, Bloom.berg acknowledged the possibility existed.

"We're always constantly looking and the sad reality is I can't guarantee that we won't find something down the road. I can tell you that a lot of the people that have worked on this for the last five years have given it their all and tried to do their best, and it's not a perfect world, but we are going to continue," Bloomberg said. Bloomberg said family members can count on the city to help come up with DNA matches for the remains uncovered within the past week under a haul road between Vesey and Liberty streets on the western edge of the site, which is now under construction.

Utility workers discovered the remains last week by accident, spurring City Hall to convene a new search and order a study of new places to search. So far, more than 200 pieces of human remains believed to be that of victims have been recovered. The remains are said to be in good condition and DNA matches are possible.

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