The video of a girl being lifted in the air by a giant kite is being shared on social media claiming that it is from Ahmedabad in Gujarat.
The post was shared on Facebook with a caption: अहमदाबाद में पतंग के साथ उड़ गई बच्ची (English translation: A girl flew with a kite in Ahmedabad.)
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post, and found it to be misleading.
With a keyword search, we found the same video uploaded by BBC, in August 2020, with a title: “Girl thrown into air by kite in Taiwan”
The description of the video reads: A three-year-old girl thrown into the air by a gust of wind, after being tangled in the tail of a kite.
We also found a report by South China Morning Post, dated August 31, 2020, featuring a similar video. “During a kite festival in Taiwan’s northern city of Hsinchu on August 30, 2020, a three-year-old girl was lifted into the sky. Footage showed the young child entangled in a giant kite and carried away for a few seconds before being rescued by onlookers. A local government official told media that a rogue gust of wind at the site caused the tail of the kite to wrap around the toddler. The girl’s parents said she was frightened but suffered only minor injuries. Authorities suspended the kite festival after
the accident.”
More reports on the same can be seen here and here.
We did not find news reports about any such recent incident from Gujarat.
Hence, this proves that the video is NOT from India but an old video from Taiwan.
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