Tapes capture anguish of 9/11

HAUNTING images of the terror faced by trapped occupants of the World Trade Centre have been made public with the release of September 11 emergency call transcripts.

In the frenzy of phone calls that followed the attack on the first of the World Trade Centre towers on September 11, 2001, trapped workers begged in vain for an escape route and anguished wives desperately sought lost husbands. Screams and sirens echoed in the background as bodies dropped out of the sky.

"Yo, I've got dozens of bodies, people just jumping from the top of the building on to ... in front of One World Trade," says a male caller.