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Did you know... that sixteen people were injured while fleeing a non-existent terrorist attack during the Oxford Circus panic?
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... that 16 people were injured fleeing a non-existent terrorist attack during the Oxford Circus panic? Source: "Sixteen people were treated after they were injured fleeing the station, following reports of gunshots being fired on a Central Line platform. There was no evidence any weapons had been fired, police said. [...] Police initially treated the incident as potentially terrorism-related, before standing down."
BBC News
ALT1:... that pop star
Olly Murs falsely told 7.8 million
Twitter followers that there had been a shooting inside
Selfridges department store during the Oxford Circus panic? Source: "Pop singer Olly Murs, who has 7.8 million Twitter followers tweeted from Selfridges department store: “F**k everyone get out of @selfridges now gun shots!! I’m inside.”"
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Before I read this article, I would have been sceptical it would be possible to write a good article on an 'event' where basically nothing really happened, that satisfies the notability guidelines, but this one proves otherwise. Good job! (Although there are perhaps a handful of other articles on similar human panics, such as
Battle of Los Angeles.)
Robofish (
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17:25, 19 September 2020 (UTC)reply