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Last month, members of the military killed six migrants in southern Chiapas state whom they apparently mistook for gang members.

Mr de Menezes, an electrician from Brazil, was followed and shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder at Stockwell Underground station by two police marksman who mistook him for a suicide bomber.

Specifically, he called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage," which no one mistook for being a comment about the famous vacation spot's natural beauty.

Austin Piatt, who lived next door to Nguyen’s apartment, was home when he and his roommate heard the gunshots which they first mistook for fireworks.

That was the case for a Netherlands museum, which says a maintenance worker mistook hyperrealistic art pieces for garbage.