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Mexico is not throwing bodies of COVID-19 patients in the sea from a chopper; don’t fall for this video

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As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc the world over, a video of a flying helicopter is doing rounds on social media in which people can be seen coming out while the chopper is still in the air. It is being claimed that Mexico is throwing away bodies of COVID-19 patients in the sea.

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The caption of the video read: #Mgmhyddailynews In Mexico the CORONA dead bodies are THROUGHING in the middle of the “SEA”.

The video was shared by other Facebook users as well with the same claim in Urdu. At the time of filing this report, the above post had been shared over 44,000 times.

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FACT CHECK

NewsMobile fact-checked the above video and found that the claim attached to the video is FAKE.

We extracted the keyframes of the video and put them through Reverse Image Search. The search led us to the same video on Coub, a video sharing platform, posted on August 3, 2018.

On digging further, we came across a tweet dated August 4, 2018, which featured the same video. The caption in Russian suggested that the video shows the release of paratroopers athletes from the Mi-26 helicopter.

NewsMobile cannot independently verify the origin of the video, however, the above information establishes the fact that the video in question is old and it has no connection with the Coronavirus pandemic.

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