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Ce post Facebook avec deux images prétendant montrer un incendie au Ghana en janvier 2025
Publisher’s rating: Partly False
Visuals show the Delhi earthquake that occurred on the morning of 17 February 2025.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The viral video showing a burning train is from Prayagraj during the Kumbh Mela, where 300 people died on 14 February 2025.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
FACTLY reports that the viral video shows a fire on Bangladesh’s Parabat Express, not a train incident in Prayagraj during the Kumbh Mela. The fire occurred on 11 June 2022, and the review says no casualties were reported.
سد النهضة والزلازل في إثيوبيا.. 120 هزة خلال شهرين والمتوسط السنوي 4 فقط
Publisher’s rating: مش حقيقي
A video shows two gas tankers exploding in Jaipur on 06 February 2025.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review identifies the video as footage of a tanker fire near Kot Chatta, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan, on 28 January 2025—not Jaipur. It also reports finding no credible reports of a gas tanker explosion in Jaipur on 06 February 2025.
महाकुंभ में फिर लगी आग 40 से 50 गाड़ियां जलकर खाक
Publisher’s rating: झूठ
(Video) “Villarrica 2025: Chile frente a la mayor catástrofe volcánica de su historia”: #Engañoso
Publisher’s rating: Engañoso
The Bharat Express met with an accident in Lucknow at 2:00 am
Publisher’s rating: false
The visuals show massive fire accidents at the 2025 Prayagraj Mahakumbh.
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The review says the viral videos do not show fires at the 2025 Prayagraj Mahakumbh. It identifies one as footage of a Cairo suburb fire caused by a crude oil pipeline rupture in July 2020, and the other as a Baghdad cold-storage warehouse fire in October 2024.
Early reports of four survivors show “this DC plane crash story isn’t adding up.”
Publisher’s rating: False
Videos show a train travelling from Ajmer to Assam colliding with another train on the same track in Jaipur on 02 February 2025.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
FACTLY reports that the video shows a collision near Kacheguda railway station in Hyderabad on 11 November 2019, not a collision in Jaipur on 02 February 2025. The review says it found no reports of the claimed Jaipur collision.
Video shows an electric vehicle explosion
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review says the video shows a scooter carrying firecrackers that exploded in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh, on 31 October 2024. It reports that police confirmed the scooter was not electric and that vehicle details identified it as a petrol-powered Honda Activa 6G.
Video shows the Prayagraj Express train accident that occurred on 04 February 2025, in which 305 people were killed and 680 were injured.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review says the video is from a July 2024 derailment of the 12810 Howrah-Mumbai Mail in Jharkhand, not a Prayagraj Express accident in February 2025. It states that the Prayagraj Express had not been involved in a recent accident in 2025. [S1]
Photo of a plane floating in a river during the Washington crash, USA
Publisher’s rating: Altered