Casualties of the September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks resulted in 2,996 immediate (attack time) deaths: 2,977 victims and the 19 hijackers.[1] A total of 372 people with non-U.S. citizenship (excluding the 19 perpetrators) perished in the attacks, representing just over 12% of the total. The immediate deaths include 246 victims on the four planes (from which there were no survivors), 2,606 in New York City in the World Trade Center and on the ground, and 125 at the Pentagon.[2][3] All of the deaths were civilians except for 71 law enforcement officers and 343 firefighters killed at the World Trade Center site in New York City, New York,[4] one law enforcement officer killed when United Airlines 93 crashed into the field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania,[5] and 55 military personnel killed at the Pentagon near Washington D.C., Maryland.[6] The event on September 11, 2001, was the deadliest terrorist attack in world history and the most devastating foreign attack on American soil since the surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.[7]
More than 90 countries lost citizens in the September 11 attacks.[8] Most of those who died were U.S. citizens. The other countries with the highest losses are the United Kingdom (including the British overseas territory of Bermuda) with 67, the Dominican Republic with 47, and India with 41.
In 2007, the New York City medical examiner's office began to add people to the official death toll who died of illnesses caused by exposure to dust from the site. The first such victim was a woman who had died in February 2002 from a lung condition.[9] In 2009, a man who died in 2008 was added,[10] and in 2011, a man who died in 2010.[11] As of 2011, 2,999 people are listed as having died due to the attacks.[9][10][11]
Additionally 1,140 responders and people who worked, lived, or studied in Lower Manhattan at the time have since been diagnosed with cancer.[12] Over 1,400 9/11 rescue workers have died since the 9/11 attacks. They were responding to the scene in the months after the attacks.[13] It is also known that there were eleven unborn babies who died on 9/11.[14]
Evacuation
At the time of the attacks, media reports suggested that tens of thousands might have been killed, as on any given day upwards of 100,000 people could be inside the towers. Estimates of the number of people in the Twin Towers when attacked on September 11, 2001 range between 14,000 and 19,000. NIST estimated that approximately 17,400 civilians were in the World Trade Center complex at the time of the attacks.[15] Turnstile counts from the Port Authority indicate that the number of people typically in the Twin Towers by 10:30 am was 14,154.[16]
In the moments after Flight 11 struck the North Tower, the roughly 8,000 people on the floors below the point of impact (the 93rd to 99th floors) were faced with a harrowing scenario. The towers of the World Trade Center complex had not been designed to facilitate a mass evacuation of everybody in the buildings, and in each tower there were only three narrow stairwells descending to the ground level. Many people began to evacuate via the stairs on their own, while others chose to wait for instructions from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Another hindrance to the evacuation of the World Trade Center was that as the planes struck, the force of the impact caused the buildings to shift enough to jam doors in their frames, trapping dozens of people throughout the building, mostly on the floors closer to the impact zone. As evacuees descended down the staircases in the North Tower, they were directed to descend to the concourse level beneath the World Trade Center complex, where the mall was located.
Within moments of Flight 11's impact, the Port Authority issued a complete evacuation of the North Tower. Meanwhile, in the South Tower, many people saw what had happened in the North Tower and chose to evacuate as a precaution. However, the major hindrance to this process was that for the seventeen minutes between the impacts of Flight 11 and Flight 175, it had not yet been determined that a terrorist attack was unfolding, and as a result the Port Authority in the South Tower spread the word via the building's intercom system and security guards for workers in the South Tower to remain in their offices.
This was done in order to avoid overcrowding on the plaza and concourse levels, which was feared would slow the evacuation and rescue operations in the North Tower. Regardless, thousands of people continued to evacuate the South Tower anyway. For example, in the uppermost section of the South Tower between the 78th Floor Sky Lobby and the Observation Deck on the 107th and 110th Floors, there were an estimated 2,000 employees on those floors, including 1,100 on the floors occupied by AON Insurance, those being the 92nd, and 98th-105th. One of AON's executives, Eric Eisenberg, initiated the evacuation of their floors within moments of the impact of Flight 11.[17]
A similar evacuation was carried out on the floors occupied by Fiduciary Trust, on the 90th, 94th-97th floors, as well as in the offices of Fuji Bank (on floors 79-82) and Euro Brokers on floor 84, which occupied the floors directly above the 78th Floor Sky Lobby. Executives such as Eisenberg instructed their employees to take the stairs down to the 78th floor Sky Lobby, where they could take an express elevator to the ground level and exit the building. Within a window of roughly 17 minutes, between 8:46 AM and 9:03 AM, an estimated 1,400 people successfully evacuated the upper floors of the South Tower, while roughly 600 people did not. At the moment of the impact of Flight 175, an estimated 200 people had packed into the Sky Lobby on the 78th Floor and were waiting for the express elevators. Almost all of these people then died, as the lobby was in the lower section of Flight 175's impact zone.
Once both towers had been struck, the order to evacuate the North Tower quickly spread to encompass not only the entire World Trade Center complex, but most high rise buildings in Lower Manhattan and surrounding areas as well. The evacuation of employees from the North and South towers continued past the plaza and through the concourse. Evacuees from the North Tower were directed across the full length of the concourse to 5 World Trade Center, from where they exited the complex onto Church Street. Evacuees from the South Tower were provided with a separate route in order to deter congestion, with theirs leading them to 4 World Trade Center and exiting onto Liberty Street.
Survivors
Only 14 people escaped from the impact zone of the South Tower (floors 77 to 85) after it was hit and only four people from the floors above it. Individuals escaped from as high up on the South Tower as the 84th floor after initial impact. They escaped via stairwell A (which was in the northwest corner), the only stairwell which had been left intact after the impact. It is speculated that stairwell A in the South Tower was not only intact after the impact of United Airlines Flight 175, but that it was also passable until the South Tower collapsed at 9:59 am. Because of communication between 911 operators (FDNY and NYPD responders were disorganized), most individuals who were trapped were unaware of the passable status of stairwell A and were instead told to wait for assistance by rescue personnel.[18]
After the collapse of the towers, only 23 survivors who were in or below the towers escaped from the debris, including 15 rescue workers. The last survivor to be removed alive from the WTC collapse debris was removed from the ruins of the North Tower 27 hours after its collapse.[19] A total of 6,294 people were reported to have been treated in area hospitals for injuries related to the 9/11 attacks in New York City.
Fatalities
World Trade Center
A total of 2,606 victims in New York City who were in the towers and on the ground perished in the attacks on and the subsequent collapse of the World Trade Center.[2][20] This figure includes 343 members of the New York City Fire Department (including the FDNY fire chaplain, Franciscan Fr. Mychal Judge);[21] 71 law enforcement personnel including 23 members of the New York City Police Department; 37 members of the Port Authority Police Department; five members of the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance; three members of the New York State Office of Court Administration; one law enforcement member of the New York City Fire Department; one member of the FBI; and one member of the U.S. Secret Service.[22] In addition, eight EMTs and paramedics from private hospital units died in the attacks, and approximately 2,000 first responders were injured (see Emergency workers killed in the September 11 attacks).[23]
1,366 people died at or above the floors of impact in the North Tower. According to the Commission Report, hundreds were killed instantly by the impact while the remainder of the fatalities were trapped above the impact zone and died after the tower collapsed. Although a few people would subsequently be found alive in the rubble following the collapse of the towers, none of these individuals were from above the impact zone.[24] John P. O'Neill was a former assistant director of the FBI who assisted in the capture of 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and was the head of security at the World Trade Center when he was killed trying to rescue people from the North Tower.[25] An additional 24 people officially remain listed as missing.[26] Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., an investment bank on the 101st–105th floors of One World Trade Center, lost 658 employees, considerably more than any other employer.[27] Marsh Inc., located immediately below Cantor Fitzgerald on floors 93–100 (the location of Flight 11's impact), lost 295 employees and 63 consultants.[28][29] Risk Waters, a business organization, was holding a conference in Windows on the World at the time, with 81 people in attendance.[30][31]
As many as 600 people were killed at or above the floors of impact in the South Tower. Only 18 people are known to have managed to escape using staircase A before the South Tower collapsed; a further 110 people killed in the attacks are known to have been below the impact zone when United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower. The 9/11 Commission notes that this fact strongly indicates that evacuation below the impact zones was a success, allowing most to safely evacuate before the collapse of the World Trade Center.[32]
A USA Today report estimated that approximately 200 people perished inside the elevators, while only 21 escaped the elevators. Many elevators did not plunge, but were destroyed due to the crash and subsequent fires, or were stranded in the shafts. A locking mechanism prevented escapees and rescuers, except on one elevator, from opening the doors on stranded elevators.[33] This included a bomb sniffing dog named Sirius,[34] which was not included in the official death toll.
Before the Twin Towers collapsed, an estimated 200 people fell to their deaths from the burning towers, landing on the streets and rooftops of adjacent buildings hundreds of feet below at a speed of almost 150 miles per hour—sufficient to cause instantaneous death upon impact, but insufficient to cause unconsciousness throughout the actual fall. Most of those who had fallen from the World Trade Center had jumped from the North Tower.[35] To witnesses upon the ground, many of the people falling from the towers seemed to have deliberately jumped to their deaths,[36] including the person whose photograph became known as the Falling Man. The NIST report officially describes the deaths of 104 jumpers, but states that this figure likely understates the true number of those who had died in this manner. The sight and sound of these individualls falling from the towers, then "smashing like eggs on the ground" horrified and traumatized many witnesses. The jumpers' death certificates state the cause of death as homicide due to "blunt trauma".[37] Some of the occupants of each tower above its point of impact made their way upward toward the roof in hope of helicopter rescue, only to find the roof access doors locked. Port Authority officers attempted to unlock the doors but control systems would not let them; in any case, thick smoke and intense heat would have prevented rescue helicopters from landing.[38]
The average age of the dead in New York City was 40.[39] In the buildings, the youngest victim was 18 and the oldest was 79.[40][41]
Contrary to some conspiracy theories about Jews being warned not to go to work that day, the number of Jews who died in the attacks is variously estimated at between 270 and 400.[42][43][44][45]
The following list details the number of deaths reported by companies in business premises at the World Trade Center. The list includes WTC tenants (all buildings), vendors, visitors, independent emergency responders, and some hijacked passenger-related firms.[46]
Company | Tower | Floors | Deaths |
---|---|---|---|
Cantor Fitzgerald | North | 101-105 | 658 |
Marsh & McLennan | North | 93-100 | 295 |
Aon Corporation | South | 92, 98-105 | 175 |
Fiduciary Trust International | South | 90, 94-97 | 87 |
Windows on the World | North | 106-107 | 72 |
Carr Futures | North | 92 | 69 |
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | South | 85, 88-89 | 67 |
Sandler O'Neill & Partners | South | 104 | 66 |
Euro Brokers Inc. | South | 84 | 61 |
New York State Department of Taxation and Finance | South | 86-87 | 39 |
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey | North | 3,14,19,24,28,31,34 | 37 |
Fred Alger Management | North | 93 | 35 |
Fuji Bank | South | 79-82 | 23 |
Forte Food Service | North | Cantor Fitzgerald | 21 |
ABM Industries | Both | N/A | 17 |
Risk Waters Group | North | Windows on the World | 16 |
General Telecom | North | 83 | 13 |
Washington Group International | South | 91 | 12 |
American Express | North | 94 | 11 |
Summit Security Services | Both | N/A | 11 |
Morgan Stanley | Both | North: 59-74 South: 43-46, 56, 59-74 |
10 |
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Association | North | 27-28, 30-31 | 8 |
Alliance Consulting | North | 102 | 7 |
Accenture | North | Windows on the World | 6 |
Harvey Young Yurman Inc. | North | Windows on the World | 6 |
Bronx Builders | North | Windows on the World | 5 |
Forest Electric Corp. | North | Cantor Fitzgerald | 5 |
Harris Beach LLP | South | 85 | 5 |
OCS Security | Throughout Complex | N/A | 5 |
Regus | South | 93 | 5 |
Baseline Financial Services | South | 77-78 | 4 |
Compaq | North | Windows on the World | 4 |
Data Synapse | North | Windows on the World | 4 |
International Office Centers | North | 79 | 4 |
Merrill Lynch | North | Windows on the World | 4 |
Mizuho Capital | South | 80 | 4 |
Oracle Corporation | North | 99 | 4 |
Pitney Bowes | South | 102 | 4 |
Wachovia Corp. | North | 47 | 4 |
Zurich American Insurance | North: 2 South: 2 |
105 | 4 |
Bank of America | North | 81 | 3 |
Bank of New York | N/A | Killed by falling debris | 3 |
Bloomberg L.P. | North | Windows on the World | 3 |
Callixa | North | Windows on the World | 3 |
The Chuo Mitsui Trust and Banking Co. | South | 83 | 3 |
Citibank | North: 1 Subway: 1 N/A: 1 |
105 | 3 |
Encompys | North | Windows on the World | 3 |
IPC Kleinknecht Electric Co. | North | 105 | 3 |
IQ Financial Systems | South | 83 | 3 |
New York State Department of Transportation | North | 82 | 3 |
Reinsurance Solutions Inc. | North | 94 | 3 |
Structure Tone | North: 1 South: 2 |
97, 105 | 3 |
SunGard | South | 102,104 | 3 |
Thomson Financial Services | North | Windows on the World | 3 |
Advantage Security | Both | N/A | 2 |
BP Air Conditioning | North | 101 | 2 |
Certified Installation Services | South | 105 | 2 |
Denino Electric | North | 95 | 2 |
Deutsche Bank | WTC 4 | N/A | 2 |
Devonshire Group | North | 94 | 2 |
Fine Painting and Decorating | South | Observation Deck | 2 |
First Commercial Bank | N/A | N/A | 2 |
FM Global | South | 102 | 2 |
Franklin Templeton Investments | South | 95 | 2 |
Genuity | South | 110 | 2 |
Guy Carpenter | North | 94 | 2 |
Imagine Software | North | Windows on the World | 2 |
Instinet (Reuters) | North | 13-14 | 2 |
Studley, Inc. | North | 86, 88 | 2 |
Keane | South | 78 | 2 |
Kidder Peabody-Paine Webber | North | 101 | 2 |
Marriott World Trade Center Hotel | N/A | N/A | 2 |
Metropolitan Life Insurance | North | 89 | 2 |
New York Presbyterian Hospital | N/A | N/A | 2 |
Nishi-Nippon Bank | North | 102 | 2 |
Nomura Research Institute Ltd. | North | Windows on the World | 2 |
Ohrenstein & Brown | North | 85 | 2 |
One Source Networks (Hudson Shatz) | N/A | N/A | 2 |
P.E. Stone Inc. | Both | North: 92 South: 105 |
2 |
Petrocelli Electric | N/A | Morgan Stanley Offices | 2 |
Radianz | North | Windows on the World | 2 |
Random Walk Computing | North | 80 | 2 |
Reuters | North | Windows on the world | 2 |
Rohde & Liesenfeld | North | 20, 32-33 | 2 |
Silverstein Properties | South | 88 | 2 |
Slam Dunk Networks | North | 101 | 2 |
Sybase | North | Above Impact Zone | 2 |
UBS-PaineWebber | N/A | Outside Towers | 2 |
UME Voice | North | Windows on the World | 2 |
Verizon | South | 9-12 | 2 |
Vestek | South | 78 | 2 |
Xerox | South | Basement Level | 2 |
Zurich Scudder Investments | North | Windows on the World | 2 |
A.L. Sarroff | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Advent Corporation | North | Roof | 1 |
AGI | South | 103 | 1 |
Algorithmics Inc. | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Allendale Insurance | South | 102 | 1 |
American Stock Exchange | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Aramark Corp | South | N/A | 1 |
ARC Partners | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
ASAP NetSource | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Association of Independent Recruiters | North | 79 | 1 |
Avalon Partners | North | 83 | 1 |
BEA Systems | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Bear Stearns | N/A | N/A | 1 |
BMO Nesbitt Burns | North | Cantor Fitzgerald | 1 |
Boston Investor Services | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Brinks | N/A | Basement | 1 |
Cabrini Hospice | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Cambridge Technology Partners | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Caplin Systems | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
CBS | North | 110 | 1 |
Chase Manhattan Bank | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Civilian Complaint Review Board (Heart Attack) | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Colonial Art Decorators | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Consolidated Edison | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Credit Suisse First Boston | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Cultural Institution of Retirement Systems | North | 39 | 1 |
Deloitte Consulting | North | Marsh & McLennan | 1 |
Empire Distribution | N/A | N/A | 1 |
EnPointe Technologies | N/A | N/A | 1 |
F.M. Global | South | 105 | 1 |
Federal Bureau of Investigation | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Fine & Schapiro restaurant | N/A | N/A | 1 |
First Liberty Investment Group | North | 79 | 1 |
Forest Hills Ambulance Corps | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Frank W.Lin & Co. | North | 89 | 1 |
G.M.P. Inc. | North | Cantor Fitzgerald | 1 |
Garban Intercapital | North | 25-26 | 1 |
GoldTier Technologies | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Health Canada | South | 105 | 1 |
Hill International | North | 64 | 1 |
Holland & Knight | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute | N/A | N/A | 1 |
IBM Global | North | 95 | 1 |
Industrial Bank of Japan | North | Cantor Fitzgerald | 1 |
Insurance Overload Systems | North | 79 | 1 |
Internal Revenue Service | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Janus Capital Group | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Jennison Associates | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Krestrel Technologies | North | 105 | 1 |
LaBranche & Co. | South | 28-30 | 1 |
Lanagan Engineering and Environmental Services | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Lee Hecht Harrison | South | 93 | 1 |
Lehman Brothers | North | 38-40 | 1 |
LG Insurance Co. | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Liberty Electrical Supply Inc. | N/A | Basement | 1 |
LION Bioscience AG | South | 94 | 1 |
LJ Gonzer | N/A | N/A | 1 |
MAS Security | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
May Davis Group | North | 89 | 1 |
McKeon-Grano | South | 66 | 1 |
Metrocare | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Mitsui Bank | South | 83 | 1 |
MoneyLine | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
NanoTek | N/A | Basement | 1 |
National Acoustics Inc. | North | 103 | 1 |
NTX Interiors | North | 102 | 1 |
Office Centers Corp. | North | 79 | 1 |
Optus | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Pfizer Inc. | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
PM Contracting | North | 103 | 1 |
Proven Electrical Contracting Inc. | N/A | N/A | 1 |
QRS Corp. | Marriott World Trade Center | 17 | 1 |
Reliable | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Rent-a-PC | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Risk Solutions International | North | Marsh & McLennan | 1 |
Royal & SunAlliance | South | AON | 1 |
Royston and Zamani | South | Fuji Bank | 1 |
Scient | North | Cantor Fitzgerald | 1 |
Seabury & Smith Co. | South | 49 | 1 |
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood | North | 54, 56-59 | 1 |
Siemens | N/A | Killed by Falling Debris | 1 |
Signature Painting and Decorating | North | Cantor Fitzgerald | 1 |
Singer Frumento LLP | South | 104 | 1 |
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | South | AON | 1 |
Sodexo | North | 96 | 1 |
Soundtone Floors Inc. | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Sweeney and Heeking Carpentry | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Syncorp | North | Marsh & McLennan | 1 |
TCG Software | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
Telekurs USA | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
The Westfield Group | South | 17 | 1 |
ThyssenKrupp | N/A | N/A | 1 |
Top of the World Cafe | South | 107, 110 | 1 |
UBS Warburg | North | Windows on the World | 1 |
United Staffing | North | Cantor Fitzgerald | 1 |
Vanderbilt Group Inc. | South | N/A | 1 |
Vital Computer Services | North | Marsh & McLennan | 1 |
WABC-TV | North | 110 | 1 |
WCBS-TV | North | 110 | 1 |
Wipro Technologies | North | 97 | 1 |
WNBC-TV | North | 110 | 1 |
WNET-TV | North | 110 | 1 |
World Trade Center | N/A | N/A | 1 |
World Trade Center Project Renewal | N/A | N/A | 1 |
WPIX-TV | North | 110 | 1 |
Pentagon
A total of 125 victims were killed in the Pentagon, most of them who worked for the United States Army or the United States Navy.[47] Of the 125 victims, 70 were civilians, including 47 Army employees, six Army contractors, six Navy employees, three Navy contractors, seven Defense Intelligence Agency employees, and one Office of the Secretary of Defense contractor;[48] and 55 were members of the U.S. military, including 33 Navy sailors and 22 Army soldiers.[49] Lieutenant General Timothy Maude, an Army Deputy Chief of Staff, was the highest-ranking military official killed at the Pentagon.[50]
Aboard the four planes
265 fatalities aboard the four planes including the following:[51] 87 civilians (including 11 crew members) and the five hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11; 60 civilians (including 9 crew members) and the five hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 175;[52] 59 civilians (including 6 crew members) and the five hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 77; and 39 civilians (including 7 crew members), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer Richard Jerry Guadagno,[53] and the four hijackers aboard United Airlines Flight 93.[54][55] The dead included eight children: five on American Airlines Flight 77 ranging in age from 3 to 11[56] and three on United Airlines Flight 175 ages 2, 3, and 4.[57] The youngest victim was a 2 1⁄2-year-old child on Flight 175 and the oldest was an 85-year-old passenger on Flight 11.[58]
Foreign deaths
Excluding the 19 perpetrators, 372 foreign nationals[59] representing more than 12% of the total number of deaths in the attacks, the majority being British, Dominican, Indian, South Korean, Canadian and Japanese. Without accounting for some cases of dual citizenship, here is a list of their nationalities:
Country | Deaths | Reference(s) |
---|---|---|
Argentina | 4 | [60] |
Australia | 11 | [61] |
Bangladesh | 6 | [62] |
Belarus | 1 | [63] |
Belgium | 1 | [64] |
Bermuda | 2 | [65] |
Brazil | 3 | [66] |
Canada | 24 | [67][68][69][70] |
Chile | 1 | [71] |
China | 2 | |
Colombia | 18 | [71] |
D.R. Congo | 2 | |
Dominican Republic | 47 | [71][72] |
Ecuador | 13 | [71] |
El Salvador | 2 | |
Ethiopia | 3 | |
FR Yugoslavia | 2 | |
France | 4 | [73] |
Germany | 11 | |
Ghana | 2 | |
Guyana | 3 | |
Haiti | 2 | |
Hong Kong | 2 | |
Honduras | 1 | |
India | 41 | [74] |
Indonesia | 1 | [75] |
Ireland | 6 | [76] |
Israel | 5 | [77] |
Italy | 10 | [78] |
Ivory Coast | 1 | |
Jamaica | 16 | [79] |
Japan | 24 | [69][80] |
Jordan | 2 | [81][82][83] |
Kenya | 1 | |
Lebanon | 4 | |
Lithuania | 1 | |
Malaysia | 3 | [84] |
Mexico | 15 | [71] |
Moldova | 1 | |
Netherlands | 1 | |
New Zealand | 2 | [85][86] |
Nigeria | 1 | |
Pakistan | 8 | [87] |
Paraguay | 2 | |
Peru | 5 | |
Philippines | 16 | [88][89] |
Poland | 6 | |
Portugal | 5 | [90] |
Romania | 4 | [91] |
Russia | 1 | |
South Africa | 2 | |
South Korea | 28 | [69][92] |
Spain | 1 | |
Sweden | 2 | |
Switzerland | 2 | |
Taiwan | 1 | |
Trinidad and Tobago | 14 | |
Ukraine | 1 | |
United Kingdom | 67 | [69][93][94] |
Uzbekistan | 1 | |
Venezuela | 1 | |
Forensic identification
As of September 11, 2012, 2,753 death certificates were filed relating to the attacks.[95] Of these, 1,588 (58%) were forensically identified from recovered physical remains.[96][97] The Associated Press reported that the medical examiner's office possesses "about 10,000 unidentified bone and tissue fragments that cannot be matched to the list of the dead."[98] Bone fragments were still being found in 2006 as workers prepared the damaged Deutsche Bank Building for demolition.[99]
On April 17, 2013, five possible remains were recovered after being sifted at Fresh Kills on Staten Island. The medical examiner said evidence of a possible victim of the attacks was recovered as well two days later.[100]
On June 21, 2013, the medical examiner's office matched its 1,637th victim, a 43-year-old woman, to its list of victims as a result of DNA testing of debris collected from the site. By family request, her name was not released.[101]
On July 5, 2013, the medical examiner's office identified the remains of FDNY firefighter Lt. Jeffrey P. Walz, 37, after they were retested. His remains were recovered just months after the attack and is now the 1,638th victim recorded.[102]
See also
- Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks
- September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
- World Trade Center Health Program
- Alicia Esteve Head, supposed survivor of the attacks who was later revealed to be a fraud
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A September 11 memorial will include childhood details of the only New Zealander killed in the attacks, thanks to a chance meeting between a Californian flight attendant and a group from Invercargill. Alan Beaven, a 48-year-old environment lawyer, died eight years ago today on United Airlines Flight 93.
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Further reading
- THE INJURED: A Fireball, a Prayer to Die, Then a Hard Battle to Live, New York Times, October 17, 2001
- The Battery Is Down, All Right, and Crippled, New York Times, October 3, 2001
- THE MOURNER: In a Landscape of Sadness, Offering Just Her Presence, New York Times, October 1, 2001 the story of Carol O'Neill, wife of a founder of Sandler O'Neill, which lost 67 of 180 employees
- THE TRADE CENTER: The Evacuation That Kept a Horrible Toll From Climbing Higher, New York Times, September 21, 2001
- AP (NY Times)--190 Feared Dead at the Pentagon
- New York Times "Hopes Are Raised, and Dashed, About Rescue of Firefighters" September 13, 2011
- Discovery Channel: Inside the Twin Towers
- Collateral Damage, The forgotten Muslim victims of September 11, 2001, The Independent, October 11, 2001
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