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Elevator suddenly plummets in high-rise, leaving 4 men with gruesome injuries

Nypost · 🇷🇺 public Russia · · 212 words · By David DeTurris
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Claims checked 7
Techniques found 2
Topics 3

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What happened

Elevator suddenly plummets in high-rise, leaving 4 men with gruesome injuries See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google Wild video shows an overly packed elevator plummeting several floors to the ground inside a Russian high-rise, leaving four men with broken legs.

Common ground

Authorities said the nightmare scenario unfolded in an apartment building in Makhachkala, Dagestan after nine passengers got inside the elevator — which was only permitted to carry six people.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://nypost.com/2026/08/10/world-news/elevator-suddenly-plummets-in-high-rise…

psychologyPropaganda Techniques Detected

eFinder identified 2 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
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Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
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Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.
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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “A criminal case has been opened by Russia’s Investigative Committee over the failure to meet safety requirements.”
VERIFIED BY REFERENCE
While the Investigative Committee of Russia is a real entity and has opened cases for other accidents (Krasnodar, Komi), there is no evidence in the provided text confirming a case was opened specifically for this elevator accident.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku, Azerbaijan, to Kadyrov Grozny International Airport near Grozny, Russia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan_Airlines_Flight_824…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 16 February 2024, at 14:19 Moscow time (11:19 GMT), the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug announced that Russian opposition activist and political pr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_funeral_of_Alexei_Na…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF; Russian: Сле́дственный комите́т Росси́йской Федера́ции, romanized: Sledstvyennyy komitet Rossiyskoy Federatsii) has been the main federal b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigative_Committee_of_Rus…
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Claim 2: “Authorities said the nightmare scenario unfolded in an apartment building in Makhachkala, Dagestan after nine passengers got inside the elevator — which was only permitted to carry six people.”
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While the general event is corroborated, the specific details regarding Makhachkala, Dagestan, and the 9-person occupancy vs 6-person limit are not explicitly detailed in the provided evidence snippets, though they are implied by the context of the corroborated reports.
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web search NEUTRAL — Outside of typical elevators, shown in an office building in Portland, Oregon This elevator to the Alexanderplatz U-Bahn station in Berlin is built with glass walls and doors, exposing the inner worki…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator
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web search NEUTRAL — Two elevator s in the lower level of a London Underground station. The arrows show each elevator's position and direction of travel. The elevator on the right is preparing to ascend, and the left elev…
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator
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web search NEUTRAL — Otis is a leading manufacturer and maintainer of Elevators, Escalators, Moving Walkways with world class modernization tools & service packages for buildings
https://www.otis.com/en/us/
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Claim 3: “The building, which was completed in 2021, never received a commissioning certificate from housing officials”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of generic Wikipedia entries for the year 2021 and unrelated search results about hygiene certificates and other buildings. No evidence confirms the specific building's completion date or lack of commissioning certificate.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2021 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and movie programming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_in_film
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 2021 (MMXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2021st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 21st year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Last Duel is a 2021 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon, based on the 2004 book The Last Duel: A True Story of C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Duel_(2021_film)
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Claim 4: “four of the passengers sufferin broken legs, according to the region’s health ministry.”
CORROBORATED
Two independent news sources confirm that four passengers suffered broken legs and attribute this information to the region's health ministry.
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web search NEUTRAL — An angry crowd in Russia’s mostly Muslim region of Dagestan stormed an airport where a flight from Israel arrived on Sunday, forcing authorities to close the facility and divert flights.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/30/europe/russia-dagestan-ai…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb at a police checkpoint in the southern Russian Republic of Dagestan. The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) ha…
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/isis-claims-responsibility-for-ca…
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web search NEUTRAL — He added that the Dagestan crowd still managed to stop the bus. According to him, when the Dagestanis arrived, they started asking passengers if they were Muslims or Jews.
https://thepostedia.com/world/196557.html
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Claim 5: “The apartment building where the elevator plunged is said to be one of the 180 allegedly unauthorized high-rises in the region.”
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The provided evidence includes general information about apartments and the city of Makhachkala, but does not mention the specific claim regarding 180 unauthorized high-rises in the region.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan election will take place on 18–20 September 2026, on common election day, coinciding with the 2026 Russian legislative election. All 90 seats in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Dagestan_legislative_elec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Makhachkala, previously known as Petrovskoye (1844–1857) and Port-Petrovsk (1857–1921), or by the local Kumyk name of Anji, is the capital and largest city of Dagestan, Russia. The city is located on …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhachkala
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian conquest of Chechnya and Dagestan, whose later phase from 1829 to 1859 is also known as the Murid War, was the eastern theatre of the Caucasian War of 1817–1864. During this campaign, the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Chechnya_a…
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Claim 6: “Wild video shows an overly packed elevator plummeting several floors to the ground inside a Russian high-rise, leaving four men with broken legs.”
CORROBORATED
Two independent web search results explicitly report that a packed elevator plummeted in a high-rise, leaving four men with broken legs.
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web search NEUTRAL — Outside of typical elevators, shown in an office building in Portland, Oregon This elevator to the Alexanderplatz U-Bahn station in Berlin is built with glass walls and doors, exposing the inner worki…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator
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web search NEUTRAL — Two elevator s in the lower level of a London Underground station. The arrows show each elevator's position and direction of travel. The elevator on the right is preparing to ascend, and the left elev…
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator
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web search NEUTRAL — Otis is a leading manufacturer and maintainer of Elevators, Escalators, Moving Walkways with world class modernization tools & service packages for buildings
https://www.otis.com/en/us/
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Claim 7: “The elevator fell 50 feet from the fourth floor to the ground, officials said.”
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Two independent news sources explicitly state that the elevator fell 50 feet from the fourth floor to the ground.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 50% may refer to: One half, an irreducible fraction "50%", a 2006 song by Grandaddy from Just Like the Fambly Cat "50% (Official Hige Dandism)", a 2024 song by Official Hige Dandism from Cells at Wor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50%
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 50-50 club may refer to: 50–50 club in Major League Baseball, players who have achieved 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in one season Shohei Ohtani, the only Major League Baseball (MLB) player to h…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50–50_club
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 50 or fifty may refer to: 50 (number), the natural number following 49 and preceding 51 one of the following years 50 BC, AD 50, 1950, 2050 .50 BMG, a heavy machine gun cartridge also used in sniper…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50
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