Claims extracted
22
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
18%
4 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
68/100
Daily Mail's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Environment
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
A woman was found dead under a bridge from a possible 'structural quirk' in the overpass shortly after she was reported missing in Kansas City, Kansas.
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she → find → City
Kansas Police Department were dispatched to a report of a deceased person in an industrial area at approximately 9.45am on Friday, October 23, police said in a news release.
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police → dispatch → release
The body found was identified as Monica Rivera, a 24-year-old single mother of two.
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body → find → two
She was found just north of Southwest Boulevard and under the 7th Street Trafficway Bridge.
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She → find → Bridge
There is a possibility that a structural quirk in the bridge could've caused a fall, police told The Kansas City Star (KCS).
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police → be → Star
Police Spokesperson Nancy Chartrand told KCS: 'It kind of looks like it’s one continuous bridge deck, but there’s actually a gap.
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it → tell → KCS
If you were trying to go from one side to the other, you could possibly fall.
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you → try → other
Rivera's aunt Cassie Bennett started a petition to close the gap between two sections of the bridge to prevent further accidents.
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aunt → start → accidents
'This fatal accident could have been avoided if the city had taken timely action to ensure the safety of its citizens,' Bennett wrote.
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Bennett → avoid → citizens
'This is the outfit she was in the night she came up missing.
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she → come → ?
Please find my friend and bring her home safe to her babies,' Monica Rivera's close friend Madison Nolan wrote on social media
Monica Rivera, 24, was a mother of two children
A roadside memorial was set up underneath the Seventh Street Trafficway Bridge where Rivera's body was found last Friday
After Monica Rivera was found dead shortly after she was reported missing, a memorial was set up and attended by community members under the 7th street bridge in Kansas City, Kansas
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memorial → find → City
The gap on the 7th Street Bridge symbolizes a failure in maintaining our city’s safety standards,' Rivera's aunt Cassie Bennett wrote under the petition she started asking the city to fix the gap in the bridge
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she → symbolize → bridge
Bridges are vital infrastructures, designed to connect us, not to endanger our lives.
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Bridges → design → lives
The gap on the 7th Street Bridge symbolizes a failure in maintaining our city’s safety standards.
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gap → symbolize → standards
'Unfortunately, it took the unimaginable loss of my niece to highlight this pressing safety concern,' Bennett wrote.
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Bennett → take → concern
Rivera's close friend Madison Nolan asked for any information about her missing friend to be forwarded to her the day that Rivera was found dead.
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Rivera → ask → her
'I don't know where she's at.
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she → know → where
I know she was let out of a car on Southwest Boulevard and it doesn't take long to get to her house from there,' Nolan wrote on her Facebook page, 'something isn't right, she doesn't have her phone.
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she → know → phone
The exact circumstances of Rivera's death were not publicly released.
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circumstances → release → death
The incident remains under investigation by KCKPD.
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incident → remain → KCKPD
Anyone with any information on the matter is urged to call 816-474-8477.
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Anyone → urge → 8477
All tips remain anonymous and may qualify for a cash reward, police said.
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police → remain → reward
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