(It’s been 20 years since the 9/11 attacks that shook America and then the world. The Quint is reposting this article from its archives in commemoration, originally published on 10 September 2015.)
On 11 September 2001, militants associated with the terror group Al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, DC. A fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
This series of photographs shows the hijacked United
Airlines Flight 175 as it approaches and hits the World Trade
Center’s twin towers.
Around 3,000 people were killed in New York City and Washington DC
The remaining tower of New York’s World Trade
Center burns after the first tower collapsed. The second tower of the World Trade Center falls to the
ground. The remaining tower of New York’s World Trade
Center dissolves in a cloud of dust and debris. Television image of a body falling from one of
the towers of New York’s World Trade Center. An aerial view of the
site of the World Trade Center disaster.
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People walk away from the World Trade Center
tower disaster site. A man covered in dust on a street near the site of the World Trade Center towers in New York
City. An American flag flies near the base of the
destroyed World Trade Center in New York. A woman grieves at her husband’s inscribed name at the edge of the North Pool during memorial observances on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at the site of the World Trade Center. In 2013, People planted over 3,000 US flags placed in memory of the lives lost in the 11 September 2001
attacks.
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