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Disasters & emergencies fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about disasters & emergencies. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

3,259 published reviews in this topic

Fact CrescendoDisasters & emergencies

मध्यप्रदेश के हमारे पड़ोसी जिले पन्ना के 25 तीर्थयात्रियों की उत्तराखंड में चारधाम की तीर्थयात्रा पर यमुनोत्री धाम जा रही बस के खाई में गिरने से तीर्थयात्रियों का निधन बेहद दुखद,पीड़ाजनक है। ईश्वर दिवंगत आत्माओं को शांति दे

Publisher’s rating: False

FACTLYDisasters & emergencies

Video of a Man who died in a water park in Jhalawar district

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a video said to show a man dying after a collision at a water park in Jhalawar district, Rajasthan. The review identifies the location as Mukundra Water Park and says the man was standing in a pool when he collided with a woman coming down a water slide. He fainted and sustained a serious head injury, but the review reports that he survived.

FACTLYDisasters & emergencies

Photo of Delhi Jama Masjid’s dome which has been recently damaged in the storm

Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING

The claim concerns a photo shared as showing the dome of Delhi’s Jama Masjid after it was damaged in a recent storm. FACTLY’s review distinguishes that image from the actual storm damage: it says the circulated photo is old and depicts a dome at Jama Masjid in Bulandshahr, not the Delhi mosque. The review also states that Delhi’s dome was damaged in the storm, so the correction is about the identity and history of the photo, not whether storm damage occurred. [S1]

FACTLYDisasters & emergencies

Photo showing the wreckage of the crashed Tara Air’s 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft in Nepal

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a photo shared as showing the wreckage of Tara Air’s 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft, which went missing in Nepal on 29 May 2022 and was found crashed at Kowang village in Mustang district. The investigation says the photo instead shows a different crash: the IAF helicopter wreckage from the December 2021 accident that killed former Indian Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat and others. To check the image, the publisher reports conducting a reverse image search. It says that search located the same photo in an India Today article dated 9 December 2021, where it was identified as wreckage of the IAF Mi-17V helicopter. The review also notes that other news websites published the image with a similar description. The review distinguishes that older helicopter-crash image from the Tara Air accident by identifying the image’s earlier publication and description, and by separately noting that images of the Tara Air wreckage were available. Its account therefore does not support using the helicopter photo as evidence of the Nepal aircraft wreckage.