Heads bow in memory of 9/11 victims

RELATIVES of September 11 victims bowed their heads in silence yesterday to mark the moments when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field in 2001.

“That day we felt isolated, but not for long and not from each other,” New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said as the first ceremony began.

Construction equipment fills the city block where the World Trade Centre once stood. The work under way for four new towers forced the ceremony away from the twin towers’ footprints and into a nearby park for the first time.