This video of a bull hitting a woman crossing the street is from Turkey - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
April 7, 2022
A video of a bull hitting a woman crossing the streets is being widely shared on social media post claiming that the incident is from India. Let us fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of a bull hitting a woman crossing the street is from India.
Fact: The video is from Turkey, and not India. The incident happened on 30 August 2017 in a street in Maltepe, Istanbul. The bull escaped from an animal market nearby and attacked a woman who was crossing the street. The woman was taken to a hospital and was found to have a broken hip. She was later discharged after treatment. Hence, the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
When reverse image search is done on the screenshots of the video, the same video was found on YouTube. The YouTube video uploaded on 30 August 2017 says that the Bull in the video escaped from the Maltepe Centre. Maltepe is a district in Istanbul, Turkey.
According to Turkish news reports, the incident happened on 30 August 2017 in a street in Maltepe, Istanbul. The bull escaped from an animal market nearby and attacked a woman who was crossing the street. The woman was taken to a hospital and was found to have a broken hip. She was later discharged after treatment.
To sum it up, this video of a bull hitting a woman crossing the street is from Turkey.