TORRES GEMELAS.
10 SENTENCES WITH SIMPLE PAST ABOUT THIS HISTORIC
EVENT.
The attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 remains to this day one
of the saddest episodes in USA history.
Four planes were hijacked by a group of suicide bombers from the jihadist
group Al Qaeda.
A great fire ended up collapsing first the south tower, and then the north.
Another of the hijacked planes crashed into the Pentagon, and the third was
scheduled to fall on the Capitol.
An explosion that threw burning debris into buildings and intermittent streets. It
was the largest aggression against the United States and on its own soil: 2,977
people died in the four attacks, including 343 firefighters among the first to
come to the aid, specifies the 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
Four commercial airliners became the weapons of destruction and death used by
the radicals, something that forever changed the way of travel and imposed
stricter controls on global air travel.
The Twin Towers were on fire, and dozens of people were throwing themselves
out of the windows.
The iconic buildings of the World Trade Center collapsed before the eyes of the
world. The terrorist group wanted to attack the symbols that represented the
power of the United States, including the Twin Towers.
The attack of September 11 was the deadliest, in the United States of America.
World Trade Center 1 (the north tower) and World Trade Center 2 (the south
tower) were located in Lower Manhattan, exactly in the heart of the financial
district of New York.