high securityVERIFIEDSecond read agrees
Guwahati hotel shooting: Lease dispute led to firing that killed at least five
📍 Guwahati, IN·🕐 9h ago·2 outlets
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✓ Verified · 2 outlets
Two or more outlets reported this story and its reliability score reached 65%, so WorldPulse marks it verified. That means more than one outlet says so, not that it is proven true.
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cross checkconfirmed90%
[Claude] Report 2 covers the same Guwahati hotel shooting with the same lease-dispute motive and a consistent death count, differing only in phrasing and an added critically injured detail.
1h agocorroborationconfirmed80%
Also reported by heraldgoa.in (found in GDELT's list of news articles)
1h agosecond readconfirmed80%
[Claude, second read] Agrees: HIGH, a new event. shooting killed at least five, meeting the 5-or-more-dead threshold.
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Reliability ScoreVery high
81%Independent outlets2
Statusverified
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Score bands
Very high80–100%
A highly rated outlet, or several independent outletsHigh60–79%
One well-rated outlet so farModerate40–59%
A lower-rated or state-run outlet, or one report of something seriousLow20–39%
A low-rated outlet on a serious or sensitive storyVery low0–19%
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Independent outletsEach further outlet that reports the story closes 40% of the gap to 98%
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Not in the score: AI checks and reader flags. Verified is separate: two or more independent outlets and a score of at least 65%.
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high risk