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Proof: Children are dying falling into abandoned Afghan wells - this is how one five-year-old was rescued

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59a2d28f8f6919c1a4cf8dbbb9ecee93a2233c6b2ef1cfd1698969ec49282293

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969774, mined 2026-10-03 23:13 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 23:04 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 23:04 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-59a2d28f8f69.json prints 59a2d28f8f6919c1a4cf8dbbb9ecee93a2233c6b2ef1cfd1698969ec49282293. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-59a2d28f8f69.json and headline-59a2d28f8f69.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-59a2d28f8f69.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

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