Trade Center victims' family members announced Thursday that they have filed a notice of claim against the city, the Port Authority and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. over the treatment of their loved ones' ashen remains.
The group, WTC Families for Proper Burial, wants city officials to remove the fine-dust remains of the victims from the Fresh Kills landfill and bring them back to the trade center site to be part of a planned memorial there.
The notice of claim, a necessary step before filing a lawsuit against a government entity, lists 19 specific claims including the dumping of human remains at a landfill, "infliction of emotional distress to next of kin and victims' families" and "failure to acknowledge and provide for proper burial consistent with religious convictions and beliefs of victims' families."
Kenneth Becker, chief of the trade center unit at the city's law department, said city lawyers have received the papers and will review them thoroughly.
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