A video of a toppled truck is being shared on social media with a claim that the incident took place on the National Highway at Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh and that locals ran away with liquor bottles.
“#Watch: A truck carrying liquor toppled on the National Highway at Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. Locals took away bottles from the accident site. @APPOLICE100,” the caption read.

FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact checked the video and found that the post is misleading.
On extracting the keyframes of the video and putting them through Reverse Image Search, we found a tweet by The Indian Express dated July 14, 2020, featuring the same video.
According to the tweet, the video was shot near Dindigul in Tamil Nadu.

Passerby take their pick after a liquor truck overturns near Dindigul pic.twitter.com/H2E7rDeuzy

— The Indian Express (@IndianExpress) July 14, 2020

On searching further, we found some reports published in Local Tamil websites. The reports can be seen here and here.

Hence, from the above information, it is clear that the video is from Tamil Nadu and not Andhra Pradesh.

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