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  • 2019-02-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Was a Hindu Girl Burned Alive for Attending a Christian Prayer Service? (en)
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  • A disturbing video of a young woman being burned alive is frequently shared online attached to the claim that the victim was killed for attending a Christian prayer service. We don't link to this decidedly gruesome footage here, but a screenshot of one of the social media posts promulgating this claim looks like this: This video does document a young woman's horrific death, but the back story attached is a work of fiction. The event depicted in the video took place in Guatemala in May 2015 and can be viewed via the official YouTube channel of the .Al Jazeera news channel. The exact details of what was captured in the video are unclear, but local news outlets reported at the time that the 16-year-old woman was killed for her alleged involvement in the death of a taxi driver. It's still uncertain if she had a hand in the death of 68-year-old Carlos Enrique González Noriega, or if she just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Two other people suspected of killing the taxi driver escaped, but this young woman was caught by an angry mob, as desccribed in CNN report about the incident: (en)
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