Amid the protests over Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, a video has surfaced on social media in which cops can be seen shooting at the crowd. It has been claimed that the video is from Assam.
At the time of filing this report, the above video was viewed by over 7,600 Facebook users.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above video and found the claim attached to it to be FAKE.
Firstly the video is NOT from Assam, but it is from Jharkhand’s Khunti when police were holding a mock drill.
On putting keyframes of the video through Reverse Image Search, we found the same video on YouTube dated November 1st, 2017.
Towards the end of the video, an announcement can be heard in which cops are informing about the mock drill.
Hence, the above information proves that the video is not from Assam as claimed above.
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