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Seems to be a fair amount of desinformation going on.

Why does the soldier in the right part of the picture fall, seemingly handlessly? I'm pretty sure gas explosions in a nearby house don't do that.

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There's no point to that type of speculation. Maybe got pushed. Maybe he fainted. I was at a concert a couple of weeks ago, and the guy standing in front of me just suddenly fell over backwards unconscious. Things happen. You can't tell from either angle I've seen.

Since we can't see to the soldier's left, it could just as easily be another person nudged him trying to get a better view of what happened.

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