Following the success of Operation Sindoor, which targeted nine terror camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Pakistan after the Pahalgam terror attack, a video has gone viral on social media showing damaged structures and an airplane on fire. Many users claim that the video depicts the aftermath of a BrahMos missile strike on a nuclear command centre near the headquarters of Pakistan’s National Command Authority.
A Facebook user posted the video with a caption: भारत की ब्रह्मोस_मिसाइल पाकिस्तान के NCA HQ के ठीक बगल में किराना हिल्स Nuclear Command Centre के पास गिरी। इस हमले से Iइस्लामाबाद इतना ज्यादा हिल गया कि वो हस्तक्षेप की भीख मांगते हुए अमेरिका के पास भागा। ब्रह्मोस का धमाका कितना शक्तिशाली था खुद देखिए। (English version: India’s BrahMos missile fell near Kirana Hills Nuclear Command Centre, right next to Pakistan’s NCA HQ. Islamabad was so shaken by this attack that it ran to America begging for intervention. See for yourself how powerful the BrahMos explosion was.)
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the claim and found it to be false.
Putting the viral video keyframes through Reverse Image Search, the NM team found a video report dated May 8, 2025, with a caption: “Houthis say Sanaa airport in Yemen is out of service after Israeli strikes.” A comparison between the viral clip and the footage from the report confirmed that the visuals are identical.
According to the report, the footage shows Yemen’s Sanaa International Airport, controlled by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, after it was bombed by the Israeli military in the rebel-held capital.
We found another video report by Al Jazeera Arabic featuring similar visuals. The report confirmed that the footage shows aircraft burning on the ground at Sana’a International Airport following an Israeli airstrike. Israel launched a series of intensive airstrikes on the airport and other locations in the Yemeni capital, marking Tel Aviv’s second attack on Yemen in response to a missile strike by the Houthis on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.
Thus, it is confirmed that the video does not show a BrahMos missile striking Pakistan’s nuclear command centre. The viral claim is false.
