Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina recently won the assembly elections for the fourth straight term. Against this backdrop, a viral video showing some miscreants setting cars on fire, running rampant, and vandalizing cars on a street at night is doing the rounds on social media. Many users claim the video is from Dhaka before the day of the elections on January 7, 2024.
A Facebook user posted the viral post with a caption: ঢাকাবাসী কেউ ঘর থেকে বের হবেন না ঢাকার অবস্থা খুবই ভয়াবহ পরিস্থিতি খারাপ!! (English translation: People of Dhaka should not go out of the house. The condition of Dhaka is very dangerous, the situation is bad!!)
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral post, and found it to be false.
Running a Reverse Image Search of the video keyframes, the NM team found a Facebook post, dated November 26, 2023, on an unverified page. The video matches with the viral clip informing that the incident happened in Sylhet.
We also came across a news article in a Bangladesh local daily — Prathoma, on the same day, confirming that the incident actually happened in Sylhet, not Dhaka.
Therefore, we can conclusively say that the claim by the viral post is baseless.
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