Pentagon: 9/11 victims' remains went to landfill

A total of 184 people were killed at the Pentagon on 11 September 2001

Partial remains of some victims of the 11 September attacks ended up in landfill, a Pentagon report has found.

Some small portions of unidentifiable remains from the Pentagon, and from the Pennsylvania field where a hijacked plane crashed in 2001, were given to a private contractor for disposal.

The fragments "could not be tested or identified," the review said.

The disposal came to light as the US defence department probed practices at the military's Dover Port mortuary.

The air base at Dover, in the state of Delaware, is the main point of entry to the US for the bodies of troops killed while serving overseas.

However, an investigation by the Washington Post newspaper uncovered evidence that unidentified body parts were being cremated and disposed of in a landfill.

The practice of putting partial unidentified remains in landfill was stopped in 2008.

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