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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile found the claim to be false.
Upon closely analysing the video in question, it appeared to be CCTV footage from a house gate. The date mentioned on the footage is June 16, 2024, indicating that the video was recorded days before the Wayanad landslide.
Running the video keyframes through Reverse Image Search, the NM team identified Chinese media outlets, Aboluowang and Jinrizhiyi, carrying a snap from the viral video, dated June 24, 2024. This confirms that the video is from China, not Wayanad.
For further confirmation, a subsequent search led us to a YouTube video with the same footage, titled “The Huangtian Reservoir in Huangtian Village, Pingyuan County, Meizhou, Guangdong suddenly released floods without warning,” published on June 24, 2024.
An X post by The Epoch Times, dated June 24, 2024, also confirms that the video is from a village in Pingyuan County, Shandong Province.
The tweet’s caption reads: “On June 16, 2024, the Huangtian Reservoir in Huangtian Village, Pingyuan County, Meizhou City suddenly released floodwaters. Surveillance cameras captured the process of a yard in Zhangyan Village, Pingyuan County being flooded, showing that the local water level rose by two meters in three hours. The authorities announced that as of 15:00 on June 21, the heavy rainfall disaster in Pingyuan County, Meizhou City, caused a total of 38 deaths and 2 people missing.”
2024年6月16日，梅州市平远县黄田村黄田水库突然泄洪，监控拍下平远县樟演村一处院子被淹没的过程，显示当地水位在3小时内爆长两米。当局宣布，截至6月21日15时，梅州市平远县强降雨灾害共造成38人死亡、2人失联。#大纪元爆料 #洪水 #泄洪 #梅州 pic.twitter.com/vZjHUOgFUm
— 大紀元爆料平台 (@china_epoch) June 24, 2024
Hence, we can conclusively say that the viral video showing floods in Pingyuan County, China, in June 2024, has been falsely linked to Wayanad tragedy.
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