“A video showing Sri Lanka police arresting a burqa-clad man, allegedly in connection with recent bombings has gone viral on social media in India. We found that the video is old and has no connection to the Sri Lanka bomb blasts.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 23 Apr 2019.
BBC Hindi rated thisFalse
In short
This claim spread on social media around 23 April 2019. BBC Hindi (India) looked into it and published its finding on 24 April 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/joymusichd/videos/335365287330056/?q=neth%20news&epa=SEARCH_BOX
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/newstezz24hrs/videos/616580095480351/
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/ma.rahamankhan/videos/2343025299278294/
- Post on Xhttps://twitter.com/AnamCheema_/status/1120730258280452096
Links recorded by BBC Hindi. Some posts may have been deleted since.
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