Irish mother-and-daughter aboard hijacked plane
12/09/2001 - 07:01:20A mother and her three-year-old daughter have become the first Irish people confirmed dead in yesterday’s disaster in the United States.
The mother and daughter, who are originally from Cork, were aboard one of the hijacked planes which smashed into the World Trade Centre in New York yesterday morning.
Many more Irish people are also feared dead following the collapse of the twin towers that have dominated the Manhattan skyline since they were built in 1970.
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