A video showing some trucks passing by at night is widely being shared on social media with a claim that the trucks are carrying the bodies of people, who died due to COVID-19, for mass burial.
The text on the video read: “Dead bodies taking to no-one knows where. May God have mercy and may their soul r.i.p.”

Trucks carrying dead bodies in #NewYork not releasing them to dr families bz it may carry the virus
That’s why mass burials
Here in India #SingleSource not understanding the gravity of #COVID violating #lockdown pic.twitter.com/INMSYVcun6

— Nandini Idnani (@idnani_nandini) April 20, 2020

FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact-checked the above video and found that the claim attached to the video is FAKE.
When we put the keyframes of the viral video through Reverse Image Search, we came across the same video on Facebook dated April 7, 2020. It was posted by Autamarocchi, a transport company in Italy.

The caption of the video read: “The arrival in Ponticelli (NA) of the prefabricated buildings desired by the Campania Region within which 120 intensive care beds will be used for COVID-19 patients.” (Translated)
We further contacted the transportation company and the spokesperson of the company confirmed that those trucks were transporting mobile hospital cells to Naples to take care of the COVID-19 patients.
Our investigation clearly establishes that the trucks in the video, were transporting intensive care beds and were NOT being used to carry dead bodies for mass burial. Hence, the above claim is false.

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