Sputnik goes live from the National September 11th Memorial, where a ceremony is taking place to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Traditionally, family members of the victims will gather on the Memorial plaza to read aloud the names of those killed in the 2001 terror attacks and the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing.
There will be six moments of silence observed throughout the ceremony to acknowledge when each of the World Trade Centre towers was hit and fell and the times corresponding to the attack on the Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93. The 9/11 attacks claimed the lives of 2,977 people and injured more than 25,000 injured at the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon, and in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
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