A video showing the Ghazipur landfill in Delhi on fire has gone viral on social media. Many users claim it to be true.
A Facebook user posted (Archived link) the viral post with the following caption: 📍Delhi, India
The Ghazipur landfill, which is considered the largest in India, and possibly in the world, is on fire🔥
You can check the post here.
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 identified a tweet, dated April 26, 2022, on an unverified profile. The caption indicates that it shows a fire near Mukarba Chowk in North Delhi. It is worth noting that the Ghazipur landfill is in East Delhi.
Searching further, we found a news report in The Times of India, dated April 27, 2022, containing a similar video as the viral one. As per the article, the incident happened at the Bhalswa landfill in North Delhi.
Similar news articles were also published in Hindustan Times and The Indian Express.
Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral post, claiming the Ghazipur garbage dump in Delhi caught fire, is false.
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