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    Rumors of child-kidnapping gangs and other WhatsApp hoaxes are getting people killed in India

    by Shashank Bengali and Parth M.N., Los Angeles Times May 31, 2018 4 minutes

    MUMBAI, India - Police officers in a district of southern India had an unusual assignment. They traveled from village to village early this month to tell people that some messages that had gone viral on the WhatsApp service were fake.

    The messages claimed that a gang from northern India had arrived to kidnap children. One showed two photographs of a man being taken away by police with the text: "Please take care of your children. Don't send them alone."

    S.P. Pakalavan, police superintendent in the Vellore district of Tamil Nadu state, ordered officers at the 57 stations under his jurisdiction

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