According to the British Sky News reported on the 6th, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the "9/11 terrorist attacks", survivor Janice Brooks recently shared her personal experience with Sky News in the United Kingdom.
Janice Brooks was one of hundreds of survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks at Sky News UK
On September 11, 2001, Janice Brooks, a British woman who had just moved from east London to New York a few weeks earlier, came to work at her office on the 84th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. Shortly after arriving at the office, she heard a loud noise. A colleague reassured her that the noise could be due to construction works and there was nothing to worry about.
Brooks returned to his desk to continue his work, completely unaware that an American Airlines plane hijacked by terrorists had just crashed into the adjacent North Tower of the World Trade Center.
A few minutes later, when the second plane hit the World Trade Center, she was descending the stairs. This time, the plane crashed into the building where she worked. Brooks said: "I didn't fall, but I was knocked to the side. Then I heard a woman screaming nightmarishly, and that was the scream that was still in my head (and now)... She walked in the door, her eyes full of blood. ”
Brooks and her colleagues then arrived outside the relatively safe World Trade Center. By this time, the huge fireball had engulfed part of the top of the South Tower. The scene was chaotic, with large swaths of buildings scattered across the street.
Brooks said: "When I reached the area outside the building, I could hear a kind of 'banging sound'. Later I found out it was the sound of people jumping off buildings and hitting the ground. ”
On September 11, 2001, two U.S. civil aviation airliners hijacked by terrorists crashed into two skyscrapers of the World Trade Center in New York, the 417-meter-high North Tower and the 415-meter-high South Tower, which collapsed one after another after being attacked. After the incident, the United States identified al-Qaida leader Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the scenes. Brooks was one of hundreds of survivors of the 9/11 attacks. Of the nearly 3,000 victims, 61 of her colleagues were killed.
Upstream News Compiled by Jiang Mingjing