About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/3cd28cb2cd8ab8bddd24201d069ac8a95e0c61697648546971f354d8     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:ClaimReview, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
http://data.cimple...lizedReviewRating
schema:url
schema:text
  • Fact Check: TTE was not electrocuted by cell phone but by a live wire touching his head The video was shared on Facebook with a caption, “A ticket inspector died after being electrocuted by his cell phone while standing on the platform. Do not cross the yellow line.” Earlier this month, a travelling ticket examiner (TTE) was electrocuted at the Kharagpur railway station in West Bengal. The victim was hospitalized for treatment at the Kharagpur Railway Hospital. The CCTV footage of the incident went viral on social media. Users shared the footage claiming that the TTE was electrocuted by his cell phone. The video was shared on Facebook with a caption, "A ticket inspector died after being electrocuted by his cell phone while standing on the platform. Do not cross the yellow line." FACT CHECK: Upon watching the video closely, we can notice that the man is neither talking on his phone nor does he have it in his hand. We see a sudden spark hitting him which leads to his fall. This indicates that the man was not electrocuted because of his phone. A reverse image search led to finding the same video shared on Twitter by Railway officer Anand Ruppanagudi dated December 8, 2022. The tweet reads: "A freak accident— a long piece of loose cable, taken by a bird somehow came in contact with the OHE wire and the other end came down and touched a TTE's head. He suffered burn injuries, but out of danger— at Kharagpur station yesterday afternoon!" Here the cause is clearly mentioned as "long piece of loose cable …. touched a TTE's head." Several media outlets reported about the incident and shared the same video. Here too, all reports stated that the TTC was electrocuted after coming in contact with a live wire. An article in India Today reads, "A railway official suffered burn injuries after he was electrocuted by a live wire at Kharagpur railway station in West Bengal." Times Now News describes the incident in the following manner: "Man is chatting with someone on the platform with his back to the tracks. A live wire falls loose from behind him and touches him." Thus, it is evident that the TTE was electrocuted when a live wire touched his head and not because of his phone. Thus, the claim is misleading.
schema:mentions
schema:reviewRating
schema:author
schema:datePublished
schema:inLanguage
  • Telugu
schema:itemReviewed
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 11 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software