A video is widely being shared on social media in which a fleet of luxury cars can be seen on fire. The video is shared with a caption claiming that the cars belong to former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s son.
The caption associated with the video reads: “Sri Lanka PM Rajapaksa sons had Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari and Mclaren etc. See what happened to them yesterday.”
The link to the post can be seen here.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile did a fact-check and found the claim to be misleading.
On breaking the video into multiple keyframes and putting them through Google Reverse Image Search, we found the same video was tweeted by Sri Lankan news organisation, NewsWire on May 9, 2022, with a caption that reads, “Several vehicles including a Lamborghini destroyed in Avenra Garden hotel attack in Negombo.”
NewsCutter.LK also reported that Luxury vehicles were set on fire near the Avenra Hotel in Sri Lanka.
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