(Editor’s note: Article features a distressing video)A 2018 video showing a person jumping over a railing at Atlanta’s airport in the U.S. has been falsely shared as footage from Heathrow Airport in the UK.
The distressing video shows a man who appears to be arguing with another person, leaping over a railing, and falling to the level below, amid screams from onlookers.
The video shows an incident filmed at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia, however, according to March 1, 2018, news reports (here), (here), (here).
The reports cite airport and police spokespeople identifying a man who appeared to be intoxicated and had threatened other travelers in the terminal before jumping below.
Video shows a person jumping over a railing at the Atlanta airport, not a Nigerian man in Heathrow airport in the UK.
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Heathrow Airport, Facebook, Hartsfield, Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Reuters
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U.S, London, Nigeria, Georgia, Atlanta, Nigerian