On the morning of September 11, 2001, two hijacked planes crashed into the Twin Towers, causing them to collapse and leaving nearly 3,000 dead.
1 / 29 | 9/11 in images from El Nuevo Día: 25 years of a tragedy that changed the world. On September 11, 2001, hijackers linked to the terrorist group Al Qaeda assumed control of American commercial airliners to crash them into the Twin Towers in New York, the headquarters of the Department of Defense, and headed, unsuccessfully, to attack the White House or Congress, in Washington, DC.
– Xavier Araújo