The old video of Gujarat’s Palanpur bridge collapse is falsely shared as the 2022 Morbi bridge collapse video.
Claim
Morbi Bridge, which took 135 innocent lives, was built by the Modi government.
Rating
Explanation
A 25-second viral video is purporting in X (formerly Twitter) that one portion of this huge bridge collapsed and many people gathered after this incident took place. It has been claimed that it is a Morbi bridge that took 135 innocent lives and was built by the Modi government.
What’s the truth?
We ran a reverse image search using the keyframes of the viral video, and we also took the ANI logo as a clue, and we found the same video posted by ANI in X on October 23, 2023, with a caption that states, ‘A portion of an under-construction bridge collapses in Gujarat’s Palanpur’.
#WATCH | A portion of an under-construction bridge collapses in Gujarat’s Palanpur
Details awaited. pic.twitter.com/eVPdgGsIBt
— ANI (@ANI) October 23, 2023
Varun Baranval, the Collector of Banaskantha-Palanpur, told ANI that the bridge might have collapsed due to a mechanical failure. A tragic accident happened in Palanpur, Gujarat, where a person died after part of an under-construction bridge collapsed near the RTO circle area in October 2023.
#WATCH | “The girders on the bridge fell possibly due to a mechanical failure. A team from Gandhinagar are on their way to Palanpur to conduct a technical study on this matter. One body retrieved from under the debris,” says Varun Baranval, Collector Banaskantha-Palanpur.… pic.twitter.com/zx6zNPua5q
— ANI (@ANI) October 23, 2023
The same news was covered by many credible news outlets, such as NDTV, ABP, The Indian Express, News 18, and Business Today.
According to the above-mentioned proofs, the under-construction bridge collapsing viral video is from Gujarat’s Palanpur and happened in October 2023; it has been falsely shared as 2022 Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat.
Conclusion
An old video of an under-construction Gujarat’s Palanpur bridge collapsing video is falsely shared as the 2022 Morbi bridge collapse video.
