🇹🇼 A video of a student carrying his classmate to safety recently circulated widely in posts that claimed it was filmed after an earthquake in Taiwan. 🇨🇳 In fact, the video was filmed in June in China
on September 18. It has been viewed more than 1,600 times.
It shows students evacuating a classroom during an earthquake. One boy can be seen giving another boy -- who is wearing a leg cast -- a piggyback as they flee to safety."Three earthquakes happened in Taiwan within an hour. I was woken up by the earthquake during my lunch break. Quanzhou, Fujian strongly felt the Taiwan earthquake."
Text overlaid on the video states:"When the earthquake occurred, it demonstrated the closeness of these classmates in a life-or-death situation."Rural and sparsely populated southeastern Taiwan was rattled by a series of jolts in September, AFPThe most powerful, a 6.9-magnitude quake, struck on the afternoon of September 18, tearing up roads and bringing down a handful of houses in the town of Yuli where at least one person was killed.
Four others were rescued from a collapsed building, while authorities said 146 people suffered injuries. Taiwan is regularly hit by quakes and most cause minimal damage but the island also has a long history of deadly disasters.
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