Old video of cruel murder of a woman in Brazil is falsely linked to Manipur.

YouTurn EditorialJuly 27, 2023

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Killing Christian woman in Manipur

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Explanation

A video of two women paraded naked in Manipur caused public outrage across the country. Following this, multiple videos are shared to claim that they are also from Manipur. Amidst this situation, a video showing a woman being murdered brutally is being circulated on WhatsApp with the claim that the incident happened in Manipur.

This video is viral with different claims since 2020. The video shows a woman with her hands and mouth tied being killed cruelly with an axe. So we intend not to share the video here.

What is the truth?

The woman in the video is seen wearing the official jersey of the Brazilian soccer team Fortaleza Esporte Clube. The photos published on the website ‘Documentingreality’ revealed that the woman in the video is 23-year-old Thália Torres de Souza. She is not from India but from Brazil.

A news report by Sobralagora dated September 02, 2020, reported that 17 women have been murdered in Ceará in August 2020 alone. It further states that 228 women have already been killed in the state in 2020.

A video with the same visuals as in the viral video is found published on the Hoodsite website in August 2020 with the title ‘Teen girl brutally murdered with pickaxe in Brazil’.

This article is originally published by Youturn in Tamil.

Recently, multiple old videos taken in different places are falsely linked to Manipur. Youturn fact-checked and published articles on the same.

Old undated video of a man opening fire in air is falsely shared as Manipur.

Youturn fact-checked and published an article in 2020 when the same video was viral with a different false claim that a Tamil-speaking woman who was working in the Malaysian police was murdered.

Conclusion

It is found that an old video showing a cruel murder of a woman in Brazil is shared to falsely claim that the incident happened in Manipur.