Fact Check: Viral video showing woman falling into pothole is not from India but Brazil
Heavy rains have been lashing various parts of India leading to severe waterlogging. The states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and northeastern states Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, etc. were hit by heavy rains leading to flooding in various parts.
woman falls into pothole
Heavy rains have been lashing various parts of India leading to severe waterlogging. The states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, and northeastern states Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, etc. were hit by heavy rains leading to flooding in various parts. In Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, heavy rains even led to closure of roads for traffic. A few images of huge sinkholes developing on roads due to rain are in circulation on social media.
Meanwhile, a video showing a woman falling into a pothole is shared with a claim that this incident occurred on the Rampath, the newly built road in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. The video shows a woman walking on a street and falling into a pothole—a few people rush to rescue her from the pothole filled with water.
The video is shared with caption in Hindi that goes ‘अयोध्या का शानदार रामपथ। सिर्
Fact Check:
The claim is False. The video is not from India.
When we extracted the keyframes from the video and searched using reverse image search, we found that the video had been online for a while. We found an Instagram post shared on June 25, 2024.
Here is another post shared on the Facebook page.
When searched further, we found an article on a website named alagoas24horas.com.br, with the title ‘Woman gets swallowed by a hole while walking on a street in Cascavel, Ceara published in June 2022. According to the article, A street cleaner was “swallowed” by a hole full of water that opened up while walking on a sidewalk in Cascavel, in the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza, on the morning of this Thursday (2). A security camera captured the accident.
According to an article published in istoe.com.br, Maria Rosilene Almeida de Souza, 48, was “swallowed” by a hole full of water while walking on a sidewalk in Cascavel, Fortaleza (CE). In the video, released by the YouTube channel CATVE, it is possible to see the moment when Maria was walking along the sidewalk with an umbrella in her hand. At that moment, she passed between the cones and part of the ground gave way. Three men immediately helped her.
Therefore, the claim that the viral video shows a woman falling into a pothole is from Cascavel, Brazil, and not Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. The claim is False.