“The visuals show the Jaipur gas tanker explosion on 20 December 2024.”
What FACTLY found
The visuals do not show the Jaipur gas tanker explosion that took place on 20 December 2024. The photo is from a petrol tanker fire on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State, Nigeria, on 02 December 2020. The first video is from the Beirut port blast in August 2020, caused by a fire in a warehouse storing ammonium nitrate. The second video is CCTV footage from Italy, showing a tanker crash near Bologna Airport on 06 August 2018. The third video is from an explosion at a fuel station in Gro...
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 22 December 2024. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 24 December 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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