Snezana Lupevska Sozen recalls 9/11 in New York
Macedonian journalist who witnessed the 2001 attacks remembers running through Manhattan and seeking a phone booth to report to A1 Television.
Snezana Lupevska Sozen, a Macedonian journalist who was in New York on September 11, 2001, published a post on social media on the 25th anniversary of the attacks, recounting her experience amid the chaos at the World Trade Center.
On September 11, 2001, members of the Al Qaeda network hijacked four passenger airliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon near Washington. The assailants numbered 19, most of them from Saudi Arabia; their actions caused fires, structural collapse of both towers and severe damage to surrounding buildings.
The toll from the attacks totaled 2,998 lives: 2,603 at the World Trade Center, 246 passengers aboard the hijacked planes, 125 at the Pentagon and 24 people listed as missing.
Sozen described the moments after the impact as frantic and chaotic. In her message she recalled running through Manhattan with the crowd, hearing sirens and searching for a phone booth so she could inform A1 Television about what had happened.
Her post, shared on the anniversary, emphasised both remembrance for the victims and recognition of the rescue efforts: "25 years since the attack on the World Trade Center in New York. A day when, unaware of what was happening, I ran with the crowd on Manhattan in panic hearing the sounds of sirens, but I was running looking for a phone booth to report through then A1 Television that a terrorist attack had occurred. Remembering the victims, but also those who for days tried to save survivors under the rubble of the World Trade Center."
The testimony adds a personal perspective to the anniversary memorials this year, joining the many recollections from survivors, witnesses and first responders who marked the quarter-century since the attacks.
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