A video displaying multiple mountain collapses is widely shared on social media, claiming that the video captures the collapse that occurred on Chamo Highway in Tibet. One frame within the video depicts a sizable boulder crushing a car, while another frame portrays a cliff collapsing onto individuals boating in a water body.
The video is shared on Facebook with a caption: “Half of the mountain on Chamo Highway in Tibet collapsed. What a terrible natural disaster”.
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim and found it to be FALSE.
Conducting a reverse image search of the video keyframes, our NM team found the Facebook page UNILAD, dated September 7, 2022, featuring the same video with a caption: “Mountain cracks and landslides onto the road below,” and the location key indicated the incident took place in Pithoragarh, located in Uttarakhand, India.
We traced the second video to a report on the Mexican news website La Razon. The report clarified that the incident occurred in the Policarpa sector of the Ejido in Nariño, Colombia. This calamity was a consequence of more than 30 hours of uninterrupted rainfall. The report was also published in December 2021, substantiating that the incident is not recent.
Further, reverse image searching of the keyframes from the third video has led to a report by Times Now, dated July 14, 2023. The report specifies that the incident unfolded in Nagaland, India, specifically on National Highway 29.
The fourth video, exhibiting a highway being washed away during heavy rainfall, was identified to be from India’s Jammu and Kashmir. This information was obtained from a report by Times Now dated July 8, 2023. The report detailed that the affected road stretches between T3 and T5, bypassing the Panthyal tunnel of the NH44. The collapse of the road transpired due to continuous and heavy rainfall in the region.
A video report published on the Vietnamese website vietnamnet.vn in August 2022 revealed that the fifth footage originated from the Himalayas.
The subsequent video was pinpointed to be from Sirmaur in Himachal Pradesh, India. The incident occurred in July 2021, as documented in a report published by India Today.
As for the last video in the compilation sequence, depicting a cliff collapse over tourists in a waterbody, it was traced to Brazil. The tragic event took place in January 2022, resulting in the loss of at least one life when a boulder collapsed onto a tourist boat.
Thus, it is evident from the above information that a compilation of videos is falsely shared as a mountain collapse on a highway in Tibet.
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