US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have attended a memorial service at the Pentagon as part of nationwide events on the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people.

The pair appeared on Thursday morning alongside Pete Hegseth, the defence secretary, and General Dan Caine, the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as the names of the victims who lost their lives at the government site in Virginia were read aloud.

Almost 3,000 people lost their lives when two hijacked planes hit the towers in downtown New York in 2001, causing both to collapse.

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Dignitaries, politicians and the bereaved also took part in events at the other epicentres of the Al-Qaeda atrocities — Ground Zero in N

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