Recently, a video circulated on Twitter. The Chinese part of the video shows: "Shandong Weifang Kite Festival, adults mistakenly put their children into the sky." The video clip lasts 51 seconds. At the 12th second, a young child appears in the picture, tied to the tail of an orange kite. With the strong wind, it is very high and low in the air, and there is danger of falling to the ground. The crowd screamed in shock and stepped forward to help. After hovering in the air for nearly 30 seconds, the child was successfully rescued.
Twitter screenshot
According to verification by "Pengpai Mingcha", the original video had appeared as early as 2020. According to the South China Morning Post, the accident occurred in August 2020, in the fishing port in Hsinchu City, Taiwan Province, China. When the accident happened, the girl's neck was entangled with a kite's long tail and dragged it into the air. The girl's surname is Lin, weighs about 13 kilograms, and has minor abrasions on her neck and face.
Therefore, the rumored video occurred in Taiwan Province in August 2020 and has nothing to do with Shandong Weifang Kite Festival.
[Reporter] Wu Yang
[Author] Wu Yang
Southern Probe
