heres some information about the 9/11 tragedy thats been updated! Casualties of the September 11 attacks Russian President Vladimir Putin writes a message of consolation at a makeshift memorial wall to the international victims of the September 11 attacks near the World Trade Center site in November 2001. 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] About 292 people[citation needed] were killed at street level by burning debris and falling bodies of those who had jumped or fallen from the World Trade Centers windows. All the deaths in the attacks were civilians except for 55 military personnel killed at the Pentagon.[4] Some immediate victims were not added to the list until years later. More than 90 countries lost citizens in the attacks on the World Trade Center.[5] 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 examiners 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.[6] In 2009, a man who died in 2008 was added,[7] and in 2011 a man who died in 2010.[8] So far, 2,999 people are listed as having died due to the attacks.[1][6][7][8] Additionally 1,140 responders and people who worked, lived or studied in Lower Manhattan at the time have since been diagnosed with cancer.[9] Over 1400 9/11 rescue workers have died since the 9/11 attacks. They were the responding to the scene in the months after the attacks.[10] It is also known that there were eleven unborn babies who died on 9/11.[11]
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