World Trade Centre building number seven collapses
11/09/2001 - 22:29:51The World Trade Centre building number seven has just collapsed. It was 47 stories high.
Two planes crashed into the twin towers of the trade centre around 2pm Irish time. Since then, fires and explosions have ripped through the complex.
Fire crews are still not entering the centre of the explosions site due to the continuing structural instability.
More than eight hours after the explosions, there are still no firmer estimates as to the number of victims. It is known however that some 50,000 people worked in the World Trade Centre and tens of thousands more visit it every day.
A further 266 passengers on board the four crashed passenger planes are presumed dead.
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