A video of a heavy hailstorm is doing the rounds on social media claiming that the visuals are from Maharashtra, India.
The post reads: HAILSTORM & RAIN BATTERS HINGOLI IN MAHARASHTRA
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the post and found that the video was not from Maharashtra.
Running a Reverse Image Search on the keyframes of the video, we found that the video was shared by a Facebook page AajTak Nepal on April 21, 2020. The video caption mentions that it is from Chitwan, a district in Nepal.
The video also had the TikTok watermark which reads @diwakarbartaula.
The Facebook page of Diwakar Bartaula shared the same video on Facebook on April 18, 2020.
In the comments, he also shared a link to the YouTube video dated April 30, 2020, confirming that the video is from Nepal.
The video shows the viral video of the hailstorm followed by another video of the same location. In the video, he introduces himself as Diwakar Bartaula and then says that he shot the viral hailstorm video at Gadauli village in the Chitwan district of Nepal.
Earlier, NewsMobile had debunked the same video when it was shared as that from Udaipur in Rajasthan, India.
https://newsmobile.in/articles/2023/02/02/fact-check-old-video-of-hailstorm-in-nepal-virals-as-recent-one-from-udaipur-india/
Thus, based on the above fact check, it is clear that it is an old video from Nepal and NOT Maharashtra.
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