{"id":30362,"date":"2019-03-11T22:47:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T17:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=30362"},"modified":"2019-03-12T13:44:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T08:14:05","slug":"scientists-dead-in-karachi-bomb-blast-tweet-by-parody-account-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/scientists-dead-in-karachi-bomb-blast-tweet-by-parody-account-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists dead in Karachi bomb blast? Tweet by parody account goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"

“<\/i>#<\/s><\/i>NewsFlash <\/i>#<\/i><\/s>Karachi Blast during bomb test in a Mosque, 15 scientists dead, 10 seriously injured.”, <\/i>reads the caption attached to an image tweeted<\/a> by @INA_Pakistan. It claimed that 15 scientists have died in a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. The tweet has got massive engagement on Twitter with close to 1,900 retweets.<\/i><\/p>\n

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#NewsFlash<\/a> #Karachi<\/a> Blast during bomb test in a Mosque, 15 scientists dead, 10 seriously injured. pic.twitter.com\/gP2qxpyVeM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 INA News (@INA_Pakistan) March 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Facebook page, The Fearless Indian<\/a><\/i>,<\/i> also posted a screenshot of this tweet. The page is run by Devang Dave, social media convener of BJP Yuva Morcha.<\/p>\n

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Parody account<\/strong><\/h3>\n

@INA_Pakistan<\/i> is a parody Twitter account masquerading as the Pakistani equivalent of news agency ANI<\/i>. As evident, the bio says,“#Parody #Satire #NotANI”<\/i>. The profile picture of the account is an inverted logo of ANI.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Old image<\/h3>\n

Upon reverse searching the image on Google, Alt News found that the photograph pertains to a 2004 bomb explosion at a Shiite Muslim mosque located in Karachi, Pakistan. “Pakistani worshippers and police officers walk through the wreckage inside a Shiite Muslim mosque after a a bomb ripped through during holy Friday prayers in the volatile port city of Karachi 07 May, 2004. At least five worshippers were killed and several others injured when a bomb ripped through a packed mosque in the Pakistani city of Karachi during Friday Muslim prayers”<\/i>, said the caption<\/a> attested with the same photo posted on Getty Images<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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In conclusion, a tweet about a bomb blast in Pakistan by a parody Twitter handle got widely circulated with several individuals falling prey to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“#NewsFlash #Karachi Blast during bomb test in a Mosque, 15 scientists dead, 10 seriously injured.”, reads the caption attached to an image tweeted by @INA_Pakistan. It claimed that 15 scientists have died in a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. The tweet has got massive engagement on Twitter with close to 1,900 retweets. #NewsFlash #Karachi Blast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":30386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-30362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-economics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/Spoof2.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30407,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30362\/revisions\/30407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30362"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=30362"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}