Covering deaths

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/10/2017

How should the gruesome aftermath of a stampede be covered? TV cameras at Elphinstone Road zoomed in on dead bodies, one capturing a shot of someone placing in finger below the body's nose to check if he was breathing. Red arrows pinpointed which among the tangle of bodies crammed between the bridge's railings was dead. The October 2 IE has a report on the manner in which the victims died: heart attack, injury, suffocation, naming each of them. The report even named four victims who were ``likely among those buried the lowest''.

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