Global InformationCasualties of the September 11 attacks information
- From top, left to right: Flight 175 hits the South Tower
- Rescue workers at Ground Zero
- Collapsed section of the Pentagon
- Fragment of the Flight 93 fuselage
- 9/11 Memorial reflecting pool and One World Trade Center
The September 11 attacks of 2001 were the deadliest terrorist attacks in human history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including 2,977 victims and 19 hijackers who committed murder–suicide. Thousands[a] more were injured,[3][4] and long-term health effects have arisen as a consequence of the attacks. New York City took the brunt of the death toll when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan were attacked, with an estimated 1,600 victims from the North Tower and around a thousand from the South Tower. Two hundred miles southwest in Arlington County, Virginia, another 125 were killed in the Pentagon.[5][6][7] The remaining 265 fatalities included the ninety-two passengers and crew of American Airlines Flight 11, the sixty-five aboard United Airlines Flight 175, the sixty-four on American Airlines Flight 77 and the forty-four who boarded United Airlines Flight 93. The attack on the World Trade Center's North Tower alone[b] made the September 11 attacks the deadliest act of terrorism in human history.[9]
Most of those who perished were civilians except for 343 members of the New York City Fire Department and 71 law enforcement officers who died in the World Trade Center and on the ground in New York City;[10] a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer who died when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania;[11] 55 military personnel who died at the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia;[12] and the 19 terrorists who died on board the four aircraft. At least 102 countries lost citizens in the attacks.[13][14][15]
Initially, a total of 2,603 victims were confirmed to have been killed at the World Trade Center site.[16] In 2007, the New York City medical examiner's office began to add people who died of illnesses caused by exposure to dust from the site to the official death toll. The first such victim was a woman, a civil rights lawyer, who had died from a chronic lung condition in February 2002.[17] In September 2009, the office added a man who died in October 2008,[18] and in 2011, a male accountant who had died in December 2010.[19] This raised the number of victims from the World Trade Center site to 2,606,[4] and the overall 9/11 death toll to 2,996.
As of August 2013[update], medical authorities concluded that 1,140 people who worked, lived, or studied in Lower Manhattan at the time of the attacks have been diagnosed with cancer as a result of "exposure to toxins at Ground Zero".[20] In September 2014, it was reported that over 1,400 rescue workers who responded to the scene in the days and months after the attacks had since died.[21] At least 10 pregnancies were lost as a result of 9/11.[22] Neither the FBI nor the New York City government officially recorded the casualties of the 9/11 attacks in their crime statistics for 2001, with the FBI stating in a disclaimer that "the number of deaths is so great that combining it with the traditional crime statistics will have an outlier effect that falsely skews all types of measurements in the program's analyses."[23][24]
- ^ "A Day of Remembrance". U.S. Embassy in Georgia. February 9, 2023. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
- ^ Stempel, Jonathan (July 29, 2019). "Accused 9/11 mastermind open to role in victims' lawsuit if not executed". Reuters. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
- ^ "Nine facts about terrorism in the United States since 9/11". The Washington Post. September 11, 2013. Archived from the original on October 31, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2015.
- ^ a b "September 11th Fast Facts". CNN. March 27, 2015. Archived from the original on June 3, 2019. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
- ^ "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States". govinfo.library.unt.edu. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
125 died at the Pentagon
- ^ "Accused 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed faces New York trial". CNN. November 13, 2009.
- ^ "First video of Pentagon 9/11 attack released". Cable News Network. May 16, 2006. Archived from the original on December 25, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2006.
- ^ "1095 soldiers still missing since the Speicher massacre by ISIS". CNN Arabic (in Arabic). September 18, 2014. Retrieved May 27, 2023.
- ^ Matthew J. Morgan (2009). The Impact of 9/11 on Politics and War: The Day that Changed Everything?. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-230-60763-7.
- ^ "September 11 Memorial" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 12, 2019. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
- ^ "Richard J. Guadagno". nps.gov. Archived from the original on August 30, 2019. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
- ^ Stone, Andrea (August 20, 2002). "Military's aid and comfort ease 9/11 survivors' burden". USA Today. Archived from the original on June 27, 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2011.
- ^ Walker, Carolee (September 11, 2006). "Five-Year 9/11 Remembrance Honors Victims from 90 Countries". United States Department of State. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. Retrieved May 18, 2008.
- ^ Office of International Information Programs (August 2, 2007). "A list of the 77 countries whose citizens died as a result of the attacks on September 11, 2001". Washington, D.C.: United States Department of State. Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2011.
- ^ "MEMORIAL MAPPING: TRANSNATIONAL 9/11 MEMORIALS".
- ^ Dunlap, David W. (July 10, 2008). "The Toll From 9/11 Grows Again, to 2,751". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 27, 2015. Retrieved May 14, 2015.
- ^ DePalma, Anthony (May 24, 2007). "For, the First Time, New York Links a Death to 9/11 Dust". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 27, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2017.
- ^ Foderaro, Lisa W. (September 2009). "9/11's Litany of Loss, Joined by Another Name". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 1, 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2009.
- ^ Hartocollis, Anemona (June 18, 2011). "New Death Is Added To the Toll From 9/11". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 1, 2019. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
- ^ Evans, Heidi (September 8, 2013). "1,140 WTC 9/11 responders have cancer – and doctors say that number will grow". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on September 11, 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2013.
- ^ "The death toll from 9/11 continues to rise". Archived from the original on December 22, 2014. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
- ^ Ngo, Emily. "9/11 memorial honors unborn babies". Newsday. Archived from the original on October 13, 2014. Retrieved September 24, 2014.
- ^ "Crime in the United States 2001" (PDF). Federal Bureau of Investigation. October 28, 2002. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 28, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
- ^ Hanrahan, Mark (September 8, 2011). "Henryk Siwiak, Shot To Death On September 11th: Case Remains Unsolved". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
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