Ghana market fire video shared as Hindu colony burning in Bangladesh
A video (here, here, and here) showing fire spreading across a large area and thick smoke filling the sky is being widely shared on social media with the claim that it depicts a Hindu colony being burnt down in Bangladesh. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video shows a Hindu colony being burnt down in Bangladesh.
Fact: The video depicts a fire accident in Kantamanto Market, Ghana, Africa, on 02 January 2025, in which several stalls were destroyed. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
An internet search for recent incidents of this nature in Bangladesh did not yield any credible reports. We then conducted a reverse image search of the viral video. We found that the same video had been uploaded on X (formerly Twitter) by a Ghana-based user on 02 January 2025. The video’s description and voiceover indicate that it captures a fire accident at Kantamanto, a clothing market area in Ghana, a country in West Africa.
Further research led us to local news reports (here, here, and here) featuring the same video.
According to media reports (here, here, and here), a fire broke out in the Kantamanto market in the early hours of 02 January 2025, destroying hundreds of stalls and causing millions of dollars in losses. Reports suggest that one person died and several others were injured in the incident. The Ghana National Fire Service stated that an investigation is ongoing to determine the cause of the fire.
To sum it up, an unrelated video of a fire outbreak in a Ghanaian market is being falsely shared as footage of a Hindu colony being burnt down in Bangladesh.