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Fact Check: 2023 Post Of West Bengal’s Santoshpur Railway Station Fire Wrongly Linked To Recent Meera Road Communal Clashes In Mumbai

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A video showing a devastating fire at the Meera Road railway station in Mumbai has gone viral on social media. Many users claim that members of the Bajrang Dal set the railway station on fire after the recent communal clashes in Mumbai before the consecration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya. 

A Facebook user posted the viral post with a caption: *मीरा 🛣️ रोड रेल्वे स्टेशन पश्चिम डिविजन मे प्रत्ति उत्तर बजरंग दल का 💪🚩*
(English: * Meera 🛣️ Road Railway Station Western Division of Pratti North Bajrang Dal 💪🚩*)

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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 traced a YouTube video on an unverified News channel, dated April 6, 2023, with a title: Massive fire breaks out near Santoshpur Railway Station. The video matches exactly with the viral clip, informing that the incident happened at Santoshpur railway station in West Bengal. 

Another news article in The Times of India reports on the same incident. Here the video matches with the viral clip, confirming that the incident happened in Santoshpur. 

We could not find any credible source of information linking the viral clip to the recent communal clashes at Meera Road. Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral post, claiming Bajrang Dal set Meera Road railway station on fire after recent communal clashes, is false.

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