Fact Check: Video of floods of Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh now viral as Bhagalpur The viral post proved to be misleading in the investigation of Vishvas News. It is true that the rail route was affected in Bhagalpur also due to floods. But the viral video is not of Bhagalpur in Bihar, but of Shivpuri rail route in MP. Hence the viral post is misleading.
Vishwas News (New Delhi). A video of flood is going viral on social media. In this, water can be seen flowing rapidly from under the railway track. Users are claiming that this viral video is from Bhagalpur district of Bihar. Vishvas News investigated the viral post. We came to know that this post is completely misleading. Some people are making a video of Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh viral in the name of Bhagalpur.
what is going viral
Uploading a video on August 17, Facebook page TV Bihar wrote: 'Soil washed away from under the railway track, the situation worsened, the operation of trains stopped. In Bhagalpur, the flood water has stopped the movement of the train at another place. On the Bhagalpur to Kahalgaon rail section, the railway track has collapsed between Sabour onwards and Mamalkha railway station. Flood water has started flowing from under the track. As a result Bhagalpur rail connectivity will be possible only through Banka and Dumka rail section. Many trains have been canceled on that rail route and many train routes have been changed.
The archived version of the Facebook post can be viewed here. Considering the viral video to be from Bhagalpur, other users are also making it viral.
investigation
To find out the veracity of the viral post, Vishvas News first took the help of online tools. Extract multiple grabs by uploading the viral video to the InVID tool. After this, uploaded it to Google reverse image tool and searched. We found the same video as the viral video on the YouTube channel of Bansal News. In the video uploaded on August 4, it was told that in Shivpuri, MP, the railway track was damaged due to heavy rains and floods, due to which many kilometers of ballast and mud flowed from under the railway track, the railway track between Shivpuri-Mohana was destroyed. Happened.
We also got news, photos and videos related to it on magazine.com. This was told in detail in the news published on 3 August. You can read it here.
We also found the original video on a YouTube channel named Railroad Fan Club. It was also told that the video is of Gwalior Shivpuri railway line. This was uploaded on Aug 3.
Now we had to know the truth about the content posted along with the viral video. For this we did a Google search. We found a news of 16 August on Live Hindustan website. It was told that due to water reaching the guard of bridge number 144 A near Lailakh Mamalkha between Bhagalpur-Kahalgaon, train operation on this section was stopped. Read full news here. We also got the related news on News18's website. You can read it here.
Taking forward the investigation, we contacted in MP and Bihar. Giving information to us, Shivpuri's Naiduniya Bureau Chief Abhishek Sharma told that the viral video is of the floods in Shivpuri district on August 1. This is a view of the Gwalior-Indore railway line. The track was heavily damaged due to the floods in the Sindh river. However, now the track has been repaired and trains have also started operating.
Similarly, Amit Alok, Bihar's digital in-charge of Dainik Jagran told us that the viral video is not from Bhagalpur. However, due to floods, many places had to face such problems.
At the end of the investigation, we investigated the user who made the video of MP as Bihar's viral. We came to know that the Facebook page TV Bihar is followed by more than two thousand people. There is more news of Bihar here.
Conclusion: The viral post proved to be misleading in the investigation of Vishvas News. It is true that the rail route was affected in Bhagalpur also due to floods. But the viral video is not of Bhagalpur in Bihar, but of Shivpuri rail route in MP. Hence the viral post is misleading.
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