London ceremony honors 67 Britons killed on 9/11

A leafy London square is the focus of memorials marking the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001.

U.S. Ambassador Louis Susman is laying a wreath in Grosvenor Square on Friday morning and the families of 67 British people killed in the attacks are gathering in the square's memorial garden.

Alex Clarke lost her 30-year-old daughter Suria in the attacks. Clarke says the private service — which includes a reading of the names of the dead, the laying of flowers and silent remembrance — allows the families to come together.

In the evening, a public concert organized by families and the British Memorial Garden Trust will take place in the square.

The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

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