A video has surfaced on the internet which claims to be the CCTV recording of the deadly Pulwama attack which took place on February 14, 2019, where 40 CRPF jawans were martyred.
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral video and found that the CCTV footage is NOT from the Pulwama attack.
We put the video frame through Reverse Image Search and found that the video was originally posted on YouTube 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) at 3:54:52 PM.
The video description read, “I think that, mean the youtube society reason for the Upload of this video wrongly understood. This is not considered as amusing. History to this video: I received this video from to friendly US a Army soldier. It was stationed at this time in Iraq. I`ve uploaded this video, in order to show, from which dangers the soldiers in the war locations to suffer to have. Whether this war from my view is meaningful, I cannot say here. The sense of this video: Do not forget the soldiers, who live it there risk.”
On digging further we found that the video was from Baghdad where a ‘vehicle-borne improvised explosive device’ (VBIED) was detonated outside Camp Taji.
NewsMobile independently couldn’t confirm the location of the video, but it is clear that the video is old. Hence, the video is not from the Pulwama attack.
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