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Journalists from Purnia, Bihar and a local person confirmed with logical facts that the video going viral is of the incident in Kilpada village.
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(Trigger warning: This report contains references to suicide and descriptions of disturbing scenes that may be disturbing to some readers. Please use discretion.)
What is the claim?
A video is going viral on social media in which dead bodies of a woman and three children are visible. While sharing this video, it is being claimed that people of local Jamaat attacked Hindu families in Giripur and Mymensingh of Bangladesh, and raped and killed women and children.
This video has come out at a time when the violence against Hindus in Bangladesh is continuously being discussed on social media in India. news Are in discussion.
A user posted the video on This video is also being shared on Facebook with the same claim.
(We are not including the archived version of the post due to the disturbing visuals in the video.)
Screenshots of viral posts. (Source: X/Screenshot)
However, our investigation revealed that the video going viral is of an incident in Kilpada village of Purnia district of Bihar, where a woman committed suicide along with her three children in November 2024.
How did the truth come out?
By reverse image searching the keyframes of the viral video, we get the city Hustle News And bc24 news Similar scenes were found in a video uploaded on November 7, 2024, on the YouTube channel of.
In both these videos, it was told that a woman committed suicide along with her three children in Kilpada village of Mugra Piyaji Panchayat in Purnia district of Bihar. The deceased’s husband, Ravi Sharma, was also interviewed in the video.
Based on this information, we searched on Google and found several media reports related to this incident. Published November 6 Awakening It was reported that a 26-year-old woman first committed suicide along with her one daughter and two sons in Kilpada village of Rauta police station area of Purnia district. All four died instantly.
tv9 But in the report published, Ravi Sharma has been quoted as saying that when he returned after holding a meeting in a local temple, he found his wife and children dead. Dainik Bhaskar, Navbharat TimesAnd News18 Hindi This incident has been covered in many other news reports.
We contacted TV9 reporter Mohit Pandit and Dainik Bhaskar reporter Akash Kumar and shared the viral video with them. He confirmed that this video is of the same incident that took place in Kilpada village of Purnia.
Speaking to Logically Facts, Rauta police station in-charge Gyan Ranjan said, “It was a suicide incident.” Apart from this, a local person from Mugra Piyaji Panchayat also confirmed that this video is of the same incident.
decision
Our investigation so far makes it clear that the video shared claiming killing of Hindus in Bangladesh is actually from Purnia district of Bihar.
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