20 years later: 9/11 still kills
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Smoke rises from the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, after the impacts of two planes hijacked by the hijackers on September 11, 2001. © Mario Tama / Getty
By: Loubna Anaki Follow
20 mins
They are called the survivors.
Firefighters, police officers, rescuers, workers who were on the front line on September 11, 2001. For weeks, 24 hours a day, they take part in rescue operations, then cleaning up, 20 years later, they are thousands to have developed illnesses from the dust and fumes they inhaled at that time.
Diseases which, over the years, have claimed more lives than the attacks themselves.
A community that had to fight to be taken care of.
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