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The remains of a 72-year-old man who has been missing since Hurricane Ian ravaged the Florida coast last year were recovered from a sunken sailboat on Friday.

Human remains found on a boat in southwest Florida have been identified as the final person reported missing after Hurricane Ian struck the area last September.

Days after authorities identified a body in the Fort Myers Beach mangroves as one of two Hurricane Ian missing people, they made another discovery.

Officials say the remains of a Florida woman missing since Hurricane Ian destroyed her home in September have been identified. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said at a news conference Thursday that workers removing debris on hard-hit Fort Myers Beach discovered the remains of 82-year-old Ilonka Knes earlier this week in a thicket of mangroves. Knes was positively identified by dental records and authorities say she drowned. The remains of her husband were found shortly after the storm struck...

The remains of a Florida woman missing since Hurricane Ian destroyed her home in September have been identified, a sheriff said Thursday.

Officials on Tuesday reported 145 confirmed deaths in the state from the storm. The discovery of Knes' remains would add to that total.

The remains of a Florida woman missing since Hurricane Ian destroyed her home in September have been identified, a sheriff said Thursday.

82-year-old Ilonka Knes had been missing since Hurricane Ian destroyed her Fort Myers Beach home. Her husband's body had been found not long after the storm struck, but she remained missing for more than three months until workers clearing debris found her remains in a thicket of mangroves. She was one of two people still missing since the storm made landfall back in September.

The woman, Ilonka Knes, 82, was among the 146 people in Florida who died in the September storm, the state’s deadliest since 1935.

Officials say the remains of a Florida woman missing since Hurricane Ian destroyed her home in September have been identified