A video showing two men narrowly escape from a falling tree in the rain is doing the rounds on social media. Many users claim that it occurred in Bengaluru.
A Facebook user posted the viral post (Archive link) with the following caption: Bangalore Rain, Right timing or right placement? matter of inches and seconds, don’t save anything for a special occasion, being alive itself is a special occasion.
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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, our team identified a video, dated May 14, 2024, on Weather.com. The video matches with the viral clip, suggesting that the incident happened in Beijing, China.
Checking further, we found the same video on Toutiao — a Chinese media organisation, dated April 25, 2024. Here too, we can see that the incident happened in Beijing.
Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral post, claiming to show two men from Bengaluru narrowly escaping a tree fall during monsoon, is actually from Beijing, China.
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