Americans remember on Sunday the 15th anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001 with a sober ceremony at Ground Zero in New York to honor the nearly 3,000 dead.
The candidates to the White House, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, paused in their campaigns to attend the ceremony alongside police and relatives of the victims in the 'Ground Zero', where there are now a museum and memorial 11/9.
The minute of silence took place at 8:46 a.m. (9:46 a.m. GMT), when the first hijacked airliner hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
It was the first six minutes of silence will be observed to mark the impact of the second plane into the South Tower, the fall of each of the towers, the impact of the plane into the Pentagon and the fall of the fourth hijacked plane into a field in Pennsylvania .
Also a ceremony will be organized at the Pentagon, with the presence of President Barack Obama.
The attacks carried out by al-Qaeda left 2,753 dead in New York, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 in Pennsylvania.
"The September 11, 2011 affected each of New Yorkers, but the terrorists did not prevail because 15 years later we are strong and we are united," he wrote the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, on Twitter.
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