Claim: A user on Instagram posted a video of a train stuck in the floods suggesting it showed the current flooding in Patna, India.

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DW Fact check: Fake. Through a reverse image search with a screenshot of the video showing the stuck train, DW Fact check tracked it back to the initial account where the clip was first posted. The account's description says it's an "AI Video creator" and the channel points out that that the video in question "is completely Al generated (...) Please don't take it as real footage." Even without that information, it's easy to spot the typical errors made by Artificial Intelligence. The hands of the AI-generated figures partially melt into each other in an unnatural way. The persons' hair also does not look real. Another indicator of AI-generated content can be the writing seen on the train. While the words at the top of the video are indeed in Hindi, two DW journalists who knows Indian languages and scripts could not identify the writing on the train. The characters seem to be inspired by Punjabi or Hindi, but are not attributed to any Indian script, even though the train does resemble those in South Asia. Additionally, there have been no news reports mentioning any such incident in Patna.

Reviewed by Deutsche Welle ↗ · September 5, 2025