9/11 attacks: US President Biden to mark 21st anniversary, tributes pour in
Hindustan TimesAs America remembers 9/11 with moments of silence, US President Joe Biden will mark the 21st anniversary of the attacks at the Pentagon on Sunday. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband are due at the World Trade Centre in New York, new agency AP reported. File image of the annual 'Tribute in Light' that marks the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, shining within lower Manhattan's skyline in New York. Indian Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri paid his tribute to those who suffered from the attack on the United States’ Twin Towers and tweeted: “On the anniversary of 9/11, I pay tribute to the victims of the dastardly terror attacks which changed the world forever.” On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaeda hijackers seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York’s World Trade Centre, one into the Pentagon and the fourth into a field in western Pennsylvania.