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Video from 2020 of person being swept away in flood water is viral as from Jodhpur and as recent

The person can be seen rescued by the local people later in the video. The narrative in Hindi goes as “Jodhpur

By 2 Aug 2022 3:08 PM GMT
Video from 2020 of person being swept away in flood water is viral as from Jodhpur and as recent

Various parts of the country have been getting heavy rainfall and several cities have faced flood like situation. Social media is also flooded with the videos of water gushing into homes and streets. Some of these videos are recent, meanwhile several old videos belonging to other places are being shared with different captions. Such a video of man being swept away in flood water in street is in circulation with the claim that it shows recent flooding in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.

The person can be seen rescued by the local people later in the video. The narrative in Hindi goes as "Jodhpur में भयंकर बारिश बनी आफत, पानी के तेज बहाव में बहे लोग!" when translated claims "Heavy rains in Jodhpur, people flowing in high flow of water!"

https://www.facebook.com/choudharynews5030/videos/419969576751916

Fact check:

The claim that the viral video is from Jodhpur and is recent is FALSE.

When keyframes extracted from the video, using Invid tool, are searched using Google Reverse image search, we found videos published by several media websites.

Here are the links to the videos shared by TV9 Bharatvarsh and CNN-News18 in August 2020. The description on the video published by TV9 Bharatvarsh states "Jaipur में भारी बारिश.. सड़कों पर सैलाब.. पानी के बहाव में बहे लोग"


The description on CNN-News 18's video states "Heavy rains have left Jaipur paralaysed with flood- like situation in several areas. A man was swept away and locals rushed to his rescue as street was flooded with water. The IMD has predicted heavy rain over the next 48 hours."


According to an article in Indianexpress.com, Low-lying areas were severely inundated after three hours of continuous rains. Shocking videos showed scores of vehicles submerged. In some places, strong water currents made it difficult for people to remain on their feet. Water filled government offices, hospitals and buses. It washed away many shanties in low-lying areas.

So, the viral video is NOT from the recent floods in Jodhpur, it is from August 2020 and shows floods in the city of Jaipur. The claim is FALSE.

Claim :   video of man being swept away in flood water in Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Claimed By :  Facebook Users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Network
Claim Source :  Facebook
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - video of man being swept away in flood water in street is in circulation with the claim that it shows recent flooding in Jodhpur, Rajasthan
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A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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