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A video of a factory explosion is making the rounds on social media, with the claim that it is from Dasna in Ghaziabad. India Today's Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that the video is from Gujarat's Vadodra.
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UP's Dasna has not witnessed a major industrial mishap in recent times. This video is from Gujarat's Vadodara where a blast took place at the Deepak Nitrite Company on June 2.
Billowing smoke, a large explosion, and an ominous mushroom cloud towering over buildings nearby. This hair-raising footage that appears to be shot from a moving vehicle has been making the rounds on social media.
"Explosion in a factory in Dasna, Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh. More than 40 people died," said one post on Facebook. Other such posts can be seen here and here.
AFWA found that the claim was misleading. The video is not from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. It’s from Gujarat's Vadodara, where a fire at a chemical manufacturing facility caused an explosion.
Was there an explosion in Ghaziabad?
A Google search on recent industrial mishaps in Dasna, a town in the Ghaziabad district, led us to reports about a soap manufacturing unit that went up in flames on June 12. Per the report, there was no loss of life in the mishap at the factory in Ghaziabad's Bulandshahr Road.
However, the video in circulation was posted before June 12. Thus, the soap factory mishap could not have been captured in the viral video.
An advanced search led us to a Jagran story that said a video of a blast at Hapur was shared with the claim that it was from Dasna. A boiler explosion at a Ruhi Industry factory in Hapur on June 4 left a dozen people dead and 20 injured. The blast at the factory was so strong that its sound was heard 10 km away, said reports. This video, however, was not the same as the one in question.
To figure out if there was an explosion in the region that claimed so many lives, AFWA reached out to Iraj Raja, the SP Rural for Ghaziabad. Raja said, “There has been no such recent incident of any factory explosion in Dasna or Ghaziabad that claimed the lives of 40 people. Some miscreants are sharing this fake news with misleading claims that should not be believed.”
Where is the video from?
A reverse search of the video's keyframes led us to an Aaj Tak Bangla fact-check report. The story debunked how the visuals of a blast in Gujarat were shared with the claims that they were from West Bengal. This was the same video.
Per the report, the blast seen here happened at Deepak Nitrite Company in Nandesari-GIDC in Gujarat's Vadodara on June 2. Seven workers were hospitalised while around 700 people living in the vicinity of the factory were shifted to safer areas.
A Hindustan Times report about the incident used a screenshot of the viral video.
Similar visuals were also featured in video stories by The Quint and NDTV while reporting the blast in Vadodara.
Thus, it is clear that the video of a major fire at a Gujarat factory was falsely claimed to be from Dasna in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. Ghaziabad police also said there was no such explosion in Dasna that claimed 40 lives.
(With inputs from Sanjana Saxena in New Delhi)
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