The death toll among those sickened by the toxic dust and ash of Ground Zero will within as little as five years exceed the number of people killed on the day of the 9/11 attacks, experts say. After al-Qaida terrorists flew hijacked passenger jets into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center, the towers collapsed. Of 2,977 people killed in the attacks, 2,753 died at the World Trade Center. In 2011, the federal World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP) was established. Jerrold Nadler, the US congressman whose district includes the World Trade Center site, said of the post-9/11 health crisis: “It’s ghastly, it’s horrible, the people will die early and I feel very frustrated because it was preventable.”

Source: The Guardian September 11, 2016 09:56 UTC