These visuals show a fire accident at a pandal and not at a CNG station in Delhi’s Rohini area - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
March 30, 2022
A social media post accompanying a video of a massive fire accident is being circulated with a claim that the visuals show a fire accident at CNG station in Delhi’s Rohini sector. Through this article let’s fact-check the veracity of the claim made in the post.
Claim: Visuals related to a fire accident happened at a CNG station in Delhi’s Rohini area.
Fact: These visuals are related to an incident of fire breaking out at pandal/banquet hall in Delhi’s Rohini sector 11, on 24 March 2022. Due to the close proximity of the pandal to the CNG station, social media users and few media outlets initially shared that the fire broke out at the CNG station. However, it is not the CNG station but the pandal that caught fire. Delhi police also clarified the same. Hence the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
These visuals are related to a recent fire accident that took at a pandal/banquet hall and not the CNG station in Delhi’s Rohini area.
Google search with relevant keywords yielded news reports which reported the same visuals. As per one such article, the visuals show a fire breaking out at a wedding pandal which is located near a CNG station in Rohini’s sector 11 on 24 March 2022.
Due to the close proximity, some people believed that the accident took place at the CNG station and made it viral on social media, the article reported.
Further, Delhi Police through a tweet also clarified that the fire broke out at a pandal and not the CNG station. As per the tweet, the incident happened on 24 March and no casualties were reported.
A video being spread on social media, of fire at a CNG pump in Rohini, is factually incorrect. Incident of fire took place on 24th Mar at a pandal wherein no casualties were reported.#DelhiPolice acted promptly to help contain the situation. @dcprohinidelhi #DelhiPoliceUpdates pic.twitter.com/0MKJaNXFPE
Multiple news agencies have also reported the incident as a fire breaking out at the pandal and published different visuals related to the incident, these can be viewed here, here, and here.
To sum it up, these visuals show a fire accident at a pandal and not a CNG station in Delhi’s Rohini area.