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Donald Trump says he watched people jump from Twin Towers on 9/11 from his flat - four miles away
Billionaire Republican frontrunner makes claim even though his home was four miles away from where 2001 attack occured
Donald Trump has said he saw people jumping from the twin towers of the World Trade Centre after the 9/11 attacks as he watched from his luxury flat four miles away.
It was the second dubious-sounding statement Mr Trump, the Republican frontrunner for the 2016 presidential election, has made over the devastating 2001 attacks in recent days and came amid a renewed climate of fear in America following the recent terrorist assault on Paris.
"Many people jumped and I witnessed it, I watched that. I have a view -- a view in my apartment that was specifically aimed at the World Trade Center," he told a rally in Columbus, Ohio.
"And I watched those people jump and I watched the second plane hit ... I saw the second plane hit the building and I said, 'Wow that's unbelievable'."
Mr Trump's home in the high-rise Trump Tower, on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street is close to Central Park and seems an unlikely vantage point from which to have watched the disaster unfolding at the opposite end of Manhattan.
At least 200 people are thought to have jumped from the World Trade Centre after al-Qaeda terrorists flew two passenger jets into the Twin Towers on 11 September, 2001.
Mr Trump's claim to have witnessed such scenes followed controversy over his assertion at the weekend that he watched television footage of "thousands and thousands" of Muslims in neighbouring New Jersey celebrating the attacks.
That was widely mocked in the US media after politicians - including fellow Republicans - pointed out that police had dispelled such reports as unfounded rumours. No such footage has been found to exist, according to numerous media outlets, and even Ben Carson, Mr Trump's Republican rival who has also been criticised for statements perceived as anti-Muslim, withdrew an earlier comment endorsing his rival's comments.
"He does not believe Muslim Americans in New Jersey were celebrating the fall of the Twin Towers," said Doug Watts, Dr Carson's communications director.
Mr Trump - who has a consistent poll lead among Republican contenders - has seized on fear of terrorism to make a populist pitch to conservative voters. In the past week, he has attracted widespread criticism by appearing to back a database for all Muslims and calling for surveillance on mosques. He has also - in common with other Republican candidates - opposed the entry of Syrian refugees into the US and pledged to send back those already admitted.
He has also said he would bring back waterboarding, the harsh interrogation technique that simulates drowning. The practice was discontinued by President Barack Obama soon after taking office in 2009. Monitoring groups classified it as torture.