Found a whole story about a factory fire in Gujarat that got zero coverage outside local papers

I was trying to find info on industrial safety for a project last week and stumbled on a brief mention in a regional Indian news site. A chemical plant fire in Surat back in March killed at least 12 workers, but it was buried fast. Major outlets here and even big international wires didn't pick it up at all. I dug for an hour and only found three small articles, all from the same week it happened. It's wild how a story that big just disappears if it's not in a 'major' country. Has anyone else run into a local disaster that got completely memory-holed like that?

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nathan5451d ago

Honestly, digging into local news archives is the only thing that worked for me too.

evan_dixon671d ago

Yeah, digging into local archives was the only thing that got me anywhere too, @nathan545. I hit a total dead end with the big genealogy sites for this one branch of my family. Spent weeks getting nowhere. Then I found a digitized small-town paper from where they lived and just started reading every issue from around when they were there. Found a tiny mention of my great-great-uncle's store opening in the business notes section. That one little clue opened up everything. It's a grind but it works.