9/11 memorial tribute: Families read out victims’ names at ground zero
By AFP
12 September 2021 |
2:58 pm
The relatives of victims of the 9/11 attacks read out a list of names during a ceremony at ground zero in New York, 20 years after the terror attacks took place.
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