The tragedy of a survivor of the September 11 attacks... horrific nightmares that haunt her so far

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British Janice Brooks moved to New York two weeks before starting her job, and lost dozens of colleagues when planes hit the World Trade Center in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Janice took the elevator to the 84th floor of the South Tower to do her job at Euro Brokers. Entering her office, she was terrified by the sound of the huge explosion, but her colleagues told her to relax and reassured her that it was probably because there were construction workers outside the building.

The London woman sat at her desk completely unaware of the chaos that was about to occur when the first American Airlines plane hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crashed into the nearby North Tower.

When Janice heard that the first tower had been hit, she made a split-second decision to flee the stairs.

Just moments later, the second plane crashed into the top of the building in which it was located and caught fire.

Janice and some of her colleagues escaped the stairs of the 1,362-foot South Tower, and Janice told Sky News, about the attacks: "The screams of the victims haunt me like nightmares. Dust clouds.

"When I got to the area outside the building, I saw people jumping out of the building and hitting the ground," she added.

Janice survived the terrorist attack, but 61 of her fellow Euro Brokers employees lost their lives among the nearly 3,000 other people killed that day during the bloody attacks, and the memories of her colleagues and their images linger in her mind even now.

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