A social media post accompanying a set of images of a bridge collapse is being shared with a claim that these images show Ajit Mill bridge in Ahmedabad. Let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Images of Ajit Mill bridge collapse in Ahmedabad.
Fact: These images actually show an under-construction flyover collapse in Nagpur, Maharashtra on 19 October 2021. Further, there are no reports of any bridge collapse near Ajit mill circle in Ahmedabad. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
There are no news reports of any bridge collapse near Ajit mill circle in Ahmedabad. If any such incident had indeed happened, the media would have reported it, however, we could not find any such reports.
Google search with relevant keywords led us to a news report which published an image similar to one of the images in the viral post. As per this report, the image is of an under-construction flyover that collapsed in the Kalamna area of Nagpur, Maharashtra on 19 October 2021.
Upon juxtaposing the viral images with the image published in the above-mentioned news article, we can spot similarities, which proves the viral images are actually of a flyover collapse in Nagpur.
Further search yielded multiple news articles which reported the flyover collapse in Nagpur (here, here & here). These articles have also published images similar to those in the viral post, attributing them to the Nagpur flyover collapse. Hence, from all these, we can infer that the viral images are related to a flyover collapse in Nagpur and have nothing to do with Ahmedabad.
To sum it up, images of under-construction flyover collapse in Nagpur are passed off as from Ahmedabad.
