Fact Check: Viral video of landslide is not from Manali, Himachal Pradesh

Hyderabad: A video showing massive boulders falling off a mountain is going viral on social media, with users claiming that it shows a landslide in Manali, Himachal Pradesh.

Several Twitter users shared the video with the caption, “ALERT: Doomsday like landslide in Manali, Himachal Pradesh. (sic)”

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According to reports, heavy rainfall in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on Sunday triggered landslides, damaging houses and leaving at least nine people dead.

Fact Check

NewsMeter found that the video is from Jammu Kashmir in 2019.

On performing a reverse image search of the video’s keyframe, we found an extended version of it published by The Tribune’s YouTube channel on July 28, 2019, captioned, “Jammu-Srinagar highway closed due to shooting stones in Ramban.”

A report by The Tribune, which carried the same video, said, “The Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was closed for traffic due to shooting stones at various places between Ramban and Banihal stretch of the highway, falling in Ramban district of the state.”

It also added, “All types of vehicular movement on the highway was stopped, including the Amarnath yatra, after heavy rain lashed the region, due to which the Panthal area witnessed shooting stones. Other places, including Battery Chashma, Digdol and Marog, witnessed landslides.”

A video report by ABP News from July 28, 2021, shows the same visuals depicting a landslide in Ramban, Jammu.

Hence, we conclude that the viral video shows a landslide in Ramban, Jammu and Kashmir, not Manali, Himachal Pradesh. The claim is false.