A video is being circulated widely with the claim that a massive section of crowd caused the railing to collapse in Assam during the COVID-19 vaccination program. Though, the veracity of the news differs to a gross extent. Seven college students died and four were injured during a tragic incident in Bolivia when a railing collapsed, sending them falling from a fourth-floor balcony. Wild video of the incident showed a mass of students from the Public University of El Alto packed onto the balcony before the railing gave way. The tragedy happened in the university’s financial sciences building, as students attempted to enter a lecture hall for an assembly.
The footage, was obtained by The Sun, also showed one young woman pushing another near the railing moments before it collapsed. Bolivian police general commander Jhonny Aguilera Montecinos said Wednesday the woman seen in the struggle will be questioned as part of the investigation. The disturbing video was captured by a bystander moment before the students fell, shows them jostling while leaning against the railing which collapsed due to the pressure of the crowd. A number of them then went crashing down to the concrete floor while a few were pulled up by those still on the balcony.
A student in blue jacket was saved by other students as she dangled upside down as her colleagues grab her shoes to rescue her. The cause of death was identified as “multiple defenestration trauma,” Bolivian police chief Colonel Jhonny Aguilera told reporters. An investigation was ordered into the incident and the woman who was rescued would be questioned to find details. Those dead and injured are aged between 20 to 27. “From this accident, seven have died and five are in a critical state, some of them stabilised,” health minister Jayson Auza said.
“Our deepest condolences to the people of El Alto and to the suffering families. We await the prompt clarification of the facts,” Bolivian President Luis Arce said on Twitter. According to Bolivia’s Special Force to Fight Crime, the students who lost their lives were identified as Raúl Cadena, Genio Mamani, Saúl Mamani, Daniel Rodríguez, Anahí Chipana, Loida Sosa and Tania Roque. “So far we have a report of five dead and three people in intensive care after what happened at the #UPEA facilities,” Interior Minister Eduardo Del Castillo wrote on Twitter.
The video was being circulated with a claim that the incident happened at a COVID-19 vaccine centre in Assam, India. This said video is taking tours of the internet claimed as that the people fell off as the railing collapsed by huge crowd during the vaccine inoculation program.
This same video took tours of the internet with the same claim, but the place was alleged to be Bandra, Mumbai (Maharashtra)
