Trapped Or ‘Trapped’

How did The Independent come up with this bizarro headline? Blair offers support to 'trapped' Gaza student who is trapped…

By June 11, 2008

How did The Independent come up with this bizarro headline?

Blair offers support to ‘trapped’ Gaza student who is trapped in Gaza

Grammatical question: Do the quote marks around the first “trapped” contradict the second appearance of that word?

UPDATE June 11: I see they fixed the problem. Trapped is still in quote marks.

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