“Video of a man belonging to the Taliban accidentally shooting himself while testing a weapon”
Social media posts
Claim dated 24 Aug 2021.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The video shows an incident which took place in Abbottabad, Pakistan back in 2019, wherein a man accidentally shot himself during a celebratory gunfire before a wedding ceremony. Multiple news agencies have reported the incident back then. The video has nothing to do the Taliban or for that matter Afghanistan
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 24 August 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 26 August 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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