Amid the ongoing economic crisis in Pakistan, a video showing kids playing on high-tension wires is doing the rounds on social media. Many users claim that the children are playing on the wires due to a power crisis in Pakistan.
A Facebook user posted the viral post with a caption: बिजली आनी ही नहीं तो बच्चों ने बना दिया झूला – पडोसी देश पाकिस्तान का है वीडियो…. (English translation: When there is no electricity, the children make a swing — the video is from neighbouring country Pakistan…)
You can check the post here. Another similar post can be seen here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral post, and found it to be misleading.
Running a Reverse Image Search of the video keyframes, our team traced another similar video on YouTube, dated October 24, 2018, with a caption: Pakistani Brave kids are playing with high-tension wires.
You can check the old 2018 Facebook video here. We compared frames from both videos and found that the video from 2018 matches the viral clip.
Searching further, our team came across several similar claims made in different years using the same clip. Our team found posts from 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 with similar claims, which confirmed that the video in question is not from January 2024. You can check the posts here, here and here.
Thus, we can conclusively say that the video in question is old and misleading.
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