A lot of people got captured in it (5,5)

I believe the answer is:

crowd scene

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'people got captured in it' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'a lot of' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'lot' could be 'd' and 'd' is located in the answer.
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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