Mock drill video shared as real incident of soldiers nabbing terrorists at Dahod Railway Station - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
April 7, 2021
A video is being shared widely on social media with a claim that it shows soldiers nabbing terrorists at Dahod Railway Station in Gujarat. Let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of soldiers nabbing terrorists at Dahod Railway Station in Gujarat.
Fact: The video shows a mock drill conducted at Dahod Railway Station in Gujarat. The people being caught in the video are not real terrorists attacking the station. Hence the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
When we searched with some keywords on Google, many similar videos were found in the search results. A YouTube channel – ‘themobile news’ has posted the same video on 02 April 2021, and mentioned that the video shows a mock drill at Dahod Railway Station. A video from another angle was found to be published with a similar description by several YouTube channels. Those videos can be seen here and here.
Also, several Gujarati news articles regarding the mock drill in the video can be read here, here, and here.
To sum it up, a mock drill video is being shared as a real incident of soldiers nabbing terrorists at Dahod Railway Station.