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Remembering 9/11 on 15th anniversary of the attacks

The names of the dead will be read out in a remembrance service at Ground Zero and President Obama will address a ceremony at the Pentagon.

By :  dr swati srivastava
Update: 2016-09-11 04:06 GMT
The United States marks the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Sunday with solemn services to commemorate the victims of the deadliest terror strikes on US soil, which changed the world forever. (Photo: AP/AFP)
A man jumps from the North Tower of New York's World Trade Center on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. (Photo: AP)
A woman holds up a photograph during the ceremony commemorating the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York. (Photo: AP)
Jean Nebbia, centre, a schoolteacher from Oakland, New Jersey, talks with visitors to the September 11 memorial site, in New York. Nebbia serves as a volunteer tour guide, organised by the private non-profit 9/11 Tribute Centre, to tell tours about her brother Steven Schlag, a partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, who was killed in the September. (Photo: AP)
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A firefighter stands in the bucket of a telescopic ladder truck in Christchurch, New Zealand, over a memorial built from steel from the World Trade Centre to mark eight years since the 9/11 attacks. (Photo: AP)
This September 3, 2016 photo shows a beam from the destroyed World Trade Centre buildings, part of the 9/11 Memorial near the Veterans' Pavilion at the Fulton County Fair, in Wauseon, Ohio. (Photo: AP)
A pair of dust-covered shoes is displayed at the New York State Museum in Albany. The shoes are part of a new component of the museum's exhibit of the September 11, 2001, terror attack on the World Trade Centre. (Photo: AP)
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People covered in dust walk over debris near the World Trade Center in New York City, on September 11, 2001. (Photo: AP)
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Suzanne Plunkett's photograph of people escaping as the South Tower collapsed on 9/11. (Photo: AP)
Held at the September 11 memorial, the service will pause six times to mark the moments when each of the two planes hit, when each tower fell, as well as the attack on the Pentagon and Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania. (Photo: AP)
An American Airlines Boeing 767 making a Boston-Los Angeles connection with 92 people on board including five hijackers smashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, leaving a giant hole in the building's facade. Thick smoke trails into the sky from the tower's upper floors. (Photo: AP)
Nearly 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001 when 19 Al-Qaeda suicide bombers hijacked four passenger jets, crashing them into the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. (Photo: AP)
The names of the dead will be read out in a remembrance service at Ground Zero and President Obama will address a ceremony at the Pentagon.

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