After several reports of crashes and faults in India’s Vande Bharat Express, an image of a train standing on tracks with its front portion completely damaged is doing the rounds on social media. Many online users have shared the image, claiming that the train is from Europe and the engineers there have used iron instead of fibre while making the nose cone of the coach. They’re also claiming that a nose cone made up of iron cuts the animals into pieces upon crashing.
A Facebook user posted the viral image with a caption: ये ट्रेन यूरोप की है।आधुनिक युग में नोज कोन फाईबर की ही होती है ताकि इससे टकराने पर जानवर को कम से कम चोट पहुंचे। अशिक्षित लोगों के दिमाग में अब भी पुराने जमाने के लोहे के इंजन ही घूम रहे हैं जो जानवरों के टुकड़े कर दिया करते थे। (English translation: This train is from Europe. In the modern era, the nose cone is made of fibre so that the animal is least hurt when it collides with it. In the minds of the uneducated people, the old iron engines are still spinning, which used to cut animals into pieces.)
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral picture, and found it to be false.
Running a Reverse Image Search of the viral image, we traced a stock photo uploaded on Alamy — a British stock photography agency. The description of the photo reads: “View of a damaged train in the Jebel Jelloud area in the south of Tunisia’s capital Tunis. According to the emergency services’ sources in Tunis, a collision of the train has injured at least 95 people. The cause was not immediately clear.”
We also found an article titled: 72 injured as 2 trains collide in Tunis: official, published by Global Times, dated March 22, 2022. One of the images in the article matches exactly with the viral image. The article informs that two trains collided while running on the same track in the south of Tunis. About 72 people were injured in the accident and immediately rushed to a nearby hospital.
Many media networks, including France 24 and Africa News, have covered the train mishap, that injured at least 95 people.
We could not find even a single credible source of information linking the picture to any European train or its collision with cattle. Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral image showing a damaged cone of a train made up of iron is false.
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