Following the deadly attack on the CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s s Pulwama in which 40 soldiers were martyred, a video of the blast has gone viral on social media which is claimed to be CCTV footage from the attack site.
The 29-second video shows a truck on the road and a massive blast takes place at the 18th second of the video.
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The video has been shared extensively by Facebook users.
FACT CHECK
On Fact Checking the viral video, we found that the CCTV footage was NOT from the Pulwama attack that took place on Thursday.
When NewsMobile put the video frame through Reverse Image Search, we found that originally the video was posted on March 5, 2008. As per the time counter on the video, it shows that the video was shot on 9/2/2007 (September 2, 2007) 3:54:52 PM.
On digging further we found that the video was from Baghdad where a ‘vehicle-borne improvised explosive device’ (VBIED) was detonated outside Camp Taji.
Hence, the video is not from the Pulwama attack.
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