Gut-wrenching video shot by a Doordarshan (DD) staffer who was caught in Tuesday's Naxal attack in the middle of the Dantewada forest in Chhattisgarh left social media users teary-eyed. The video shows a man lying on the ground recording a message on his mobile phone, while one can hear the sound of gunfire in the background.
A DD cameraperson and two policemen were killed in the attack. Several people, including some journalists and a few media organisations, mistook the recorded message as the last words of the DD cameraman, Achyutanand Sahu, who died in the firing. Many even took to social media to offer condolences to his family.
India Today Fact Check team found that the man, to whom people were paying homage, was not the one who died in the attack. It was Sahu's colleague, assistant cameraman Mormukut Sharma, in the video. Sharma survived the attack. He is a camera and lighting assistant who was also travelling with the DD team when it came under attack.
