Posts fanning the conspiracy theory that Muslims were responsible for deadly train crash in India shared a photo of a man they identified as 'Mohammed Sharif Ahmed'. But the man in fact has a different name and worked in a different state.
After India's worst train disaster in decades killed at least 288 people, social media posts fanning the conspiracy theory that Muslims were responsible for the crash shared a photo of a man they identified as"Mohammed Sharif Ahmed", the manager of a railway station near the crash site.
"The person responsible for the death of nearly 300 passengers and more than 900 injured in the Odisha train accident, which took place near Bahanaga railway station is Mohammed Sharif Ahmed, who was theThe post -- showing a man photographed in what appears to be a control station -- has been retweeted more than 2,500 times.
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