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title: "Facts About 9/11 attacks"  
description: "On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed, 400 were police officers and firefighters, in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center in NYC."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-31  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1449/facts-about-9-11-attacks  
category: "history"  
tags: ["9/11", "attack", "Terrorist attack", "America", "American history", "Empire State Building"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Facts About 9/11 attacks

![Facts About 9 11 attacks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6fda8989-2fcd-4be7-b696-2d153d09c80b/images/5149a7a9-52f8-459c-a526-abe80d146d8f.jpeg) ![Facts About 9 11 attacks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6fda8989-2fcd-4be7-b696-2d153d09c80b/images/4f3a25cc-ca3d-41a1-bb5c-346b756e5025.jpeg) On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed, 400 were police officers and firefighters, in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. ![Facts About 9 11 attacks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6fda8989-2fcd-4be7-b696-2d153d09c80b/images/8a5bef33-9389-47ec-bc9f-a26d1775a792.jpeg) 9/11 was not the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. ![Facts About 9 11 attacks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6fda8989-2fcd-4be7-b696-2d153d09c80b/images/1d43e477-f63e-456c-8172-103fcda97d92.jpeg) Passengers aboard United Flight 93, heard about the previous airplane attacks and attempted to retake control of the plane from hijackers. ![Facts About 9 11 attacks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6fda8989-2fcd-4be7-b696-2d153d09c80b/images/7dc836c0-4ff2-4202-9d32-c99800b3147b.jpeg) Video accounts of the WTC attack aired immediately ![Facts About 9 11 attacks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6fda8989-2fcd-4be7-b696-2d153d09c80b/images/0bb43ace-201f-4ce3-be0c-a9277cc36113.jpeg) The attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 resulted in the largest loss of life by a foreign attack on American soil. ![Facts About 9 11 attacks](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/6fda8989-2fcd-4be7-b696-2d153d09c80b/images/e1d81ffd-b0be-4879-9381-ef9780b99c25.jpeg) 18 people were rescued alive from the rubble of the World Trade Center site.

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