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A mistake over death toll in the Ottawa crash plays out online

During all the live coverage of the OC Transpo/VIA rail crash on the air and on twitter this morning, reporters and announcers shared the news that another victim had died bringing the death toll to 7. Less than half an hour later that was denied. Here's how it played out on Twitter. By Mary McGuire…

During all the live coverage of the OC Transpo/VIA rail crash on the air and on twitter this morning, reporters and announcers shared the news that another victim had died bringing the death toll to 7. Less than half an hour later that was denied. Here's how it played out on Twitter.

By Mary McGuire

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Tamara Baluja is an award-winning journalist with CBC Vancouver and the 2018 Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education. She was the associate editor for J-Source from 2013-2014.