@oristarA,
Bear in mind you are looking at a list, not a complete "narrative".
Quote:Almost20,000 pieces of bodies were found
6,000 pieces small enough to fit in test tubes
1,151 victims remain completely unaccounted for
I imagine that for the 1,151 victims unaccounted for, they are missing presumed dead, and none of the 20,000 pieces of bodies found has DNA which matches theirs.
So they could not be identified from tissue samples.
But they were presumably known with some certainty to have been in the buildings prior to the collapse, and so can be described as "victims".