Friday, July 07, 2006
NY Daily News June 28, 2006: "A 9/11 family group added a new allegation to its lawsuit against the city yesterday, claiming that hundreds of human body parts - not just tiny fragments - are buried at Fresh Kills landfill.
The parts are mingled in some 414,000 tons of debris that weren't properly sifted after they were transported from Ground Zero, the suit says.
The new charge, based on the recollections of an unnamed former supervisor at the Staten Island dump, is contained in an amended complaint against the city.
In one gruesome passage based on the supervisor's account, the amended complaint claims the city "should have known that debris ... contained body parts" because the material "was suddenly subjected to foraging by droves of sea gulls."
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The former Fresh Kills supervisor came forward only recently, according to Norman Siegel, the lawyer for WTC Families for Proper Burial. [...] ----- .....---
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