2018 accident visuals shared as those from a train between Chhapra & Anand Vihar railway stations - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
June 23, 2021
A collage is being shared on social media claiming it as the visuals of a train accident on 12 June 2021. This post claim that a train travelling between Chhapra and New Delhi’s Anand Vihar railway station had met with an accident on 12 June 2021. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: A train travelling between Chhapra and Anand Vihar railway station had met with an accident on 12 June 2021.
Fact: The images shared in the post are related to the 2018 fire accident in the Andhra Pradesh Superfast Express train. This fire accident took place at Birlanagar railway station in the Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh. The accident happened due to an issue in an air-conditioning unit. Also, no such train accident happened recently in between the Chhapra and Anand Vihar route. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
This post shares two different images. Let’s check each photo one by one.
Photo-1:
On reverse image search of the photo shared in the post, a similar photo was found in an article published by the ‘Amar Ujala’ news website on ‘22 May 2018’. This article reported it as the visuals of fire breaking out from the Andhra Pradesh Superfast Express. This incident reportedly took place at Birlanagar railway station in the Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh. This fire accident happened due to an issue in an air-conditioning unit.
Reporting this information, several other news websites published articles in 2018. They can be seen here and here. From all these pieces of evidence, it can be concluded that the image shared in the post is related to an old train accident.
Photo-2:
On reverse image search, a similar photo was found published in an article published by the ‘Rediff’ news website on ‘21 May 2018’. According to an article, the ‘22416/Andhra Pradesh AC SF Express’ train travelling from New Delhi to Vizag caught fire due to an issue in an air-conditioning unit. The same visual was found in a video report published by the ‘India TV’ news channel. So, it can be confirmed that both the images shared in the post are related to the 2018 AP Superfast Express fire accident.
When we searched to check whether any such recent train accident took place in the Chhapra – Anand Vihar route, we could not find any news article reporting any such accident.
In 2019, when the same images were shared as the visuals of a train accident in Kanpur, FACTLY published a fact-check article. It can be read here.
To sum it up, 2018 train accident images are shared as the recent fire accident visuals of a train travelling between Chhapra and the Anand Vihar railway stations.