City to search sewer line for 9/11 remains

NEW YORK - The city has finished searching a service road and a skyscraper hovering over the World Trade Center site for Sept. 11 victims' remains, and has turned its search to a sewer line running beneath ground zero.

City officials found a total of 646 human bones in a service road after digging up the path and hand-sifting the debris, deputy mayor Ed Skyler wrote in a memo. The road had carried construction trucks in and out of ground zero.

Across from the site, workers over the past two years found another 785 bones at a 40-story vacant skyscraper that is being razed.