Fact Check: Video of crocodile in residential area is from MP, not Delhi
The video is from Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district in 2022.
By Md Mahfooz Alam Published on 14 July 2023 10:18 AM GMT
Screengrab from the Twitter post.
Hyderabad: A video of a crocodile straying into a waterlogged residential area is going viral on many socials. Users claim that the reptile was spotted in Delhi during the ongoing heavy rains.
For the past three days, heavy rainfall has flooded Delhi, causing massive destruction of the properties. The Yamuna River breached the danger mark of 205.33 m after Haryana released more water into the river from the Hathnikund barrage.
A Twitter user shared the video with the caption, “Several districts of Delhi experienced floods and waterlogging as the Yamuna’s level rose. People sharing videos of the capital, one of them captures a crocodile that came along with gushing waters. (sic)”
(Courtesy: Twitter/@razabeena)
Fact Check
NewsMeter found that the video is from Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district in 2022.
We extracted keyframes of the video and performed a reverse image search, which led us to the same video tweeted by a user on August 14, 2022. He mentioned in the caption that the video is from Shivpuri.
Taking a cue from this, we ran a keyword search and came across a report from August 15, 2022, by ABP News, which carried stills from the video. It said many areas were inundated in Madhya Pradesh after heavy rainfall, and Shivpuri witnessed a strange incident after a crocodile entered along with rainwater into a residential area.
(Courtesy: ABP News)
NDTV and News18 also reported the incident of a crocodile wandering into a residential area in the Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh in August 2022. The reports carried the stills from the video.
Hence, we conclude that the viral video is from 2022, from Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district. The claim that the video is from Delhi is false.
