This fund received 3,900 complaints on behalf of deceased persons and more than 67,000 complaints in total.
It’s a second drama that unfolded in the 20 years after 9/11. In addition to the victims who died on the same day of these attacks, other people developed illnesses related to the attacks and, in particular, the collapse of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York. These are the ones that are now the most numerous, he believes a report by the victims’ compensation fund published on Tuesday, 7 September.
The cumulative death toll from al-Qaeda’s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, is estimated at nearly 3,000.
However, the fund opened since 2011 for people who have been there and who have since developed illnesses collected more than 67,000 applications, including 3,900 on behalf of deceased people.
“This means that the number of people whose deaths appear to have been caused by illnesses linked to 9/11 is now greater than those who died on 9/11.”, stressed Rupa Bhattacharyya, the fund manager.
More than 41,000 files have been found legitimate so far, including 2,131 relating to dead people, and 900 are filed each month.
Most of the requests are from people who live or work near the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, whose collapse has released toxic gases that have blanketed the neighborhood for weeks.
Almost half of the files are related to cancer cases. It was the appearance of this type of disease among firefighters and people who removed the debris after September 11th that motivated the expansion of this fund to the sick, initially open to survivors of the attacks and the victims’ families.
