New York, 11 September 2023 (dpa/MIA) - People in the US remembered the victims of the September 11 attacks 22 years on, with numerous events held on Monday.

At a memorial service in New York, relatives read out the names of the approximately 3,000 people who died in the attacks. US Vice President Kamala Harris and New York Mayor Eric Adams attended the event.

US President Joe Biden was later due to give a short memorial speech in the US state of Alaska at 1245 (2045 GMT) as he returns from the G20 summit in India.

On September 11, 2001, around 3,000 people were killed in acts of terrorism that shocked the world. Islamist terrorists steered three hijacked airliners into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and into the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania.

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