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India Today Fact Check found that this video is nearly six years old and from Tabuk in Saudi Arabia.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is from October 26, 2018, and this flood happened in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, not Dubai.
On the night of April 15, the United Arab Emirates received unprecedented rainfall, which resulted in rare flooding in Dubai, killing one person and causing damage to the city’s transport service. In its aftermath, a video of a group of camels stuck in what appears to be a flash flood began making rounds on social media.
People sharing this video on Threads associated this clip with the recent Dubai flood and wrote, "The other side of Dubai. The desert. Animals in the flood."
The clip was also viral on Facebook and X, with accompanying messages like, "Everyone is sharing Dubai flood videos which include buildings, roads, and construction sites affected by the flood but no one is talking about the desert animals." Their archives can be seen here and here.
India Today Fact Check has found that the video in question is more than five years old and from Saudi Arabia, not the UAE.
OUR PROBE
Reverse-searching keyframes from the viral video led us to a Facebook post from October 27, 2018, featuring a similar clip from what appeared to be the same location.
This video contained no relevant details about the incident. However, in the comments section, we noticed a Facebook user claiming it was from Jordan. A comparison between screenshots of this video and the viral one makes it evident that both clips show the same incident.
Extensive searches of the video’s keyframes revealed that it was uploaded to YouTube on October 26, 2018. The video’s title claimed a flood hit this area that very day. We also found a Malayalam News Daily report from the same day that featured the viral video. It claimed that the clip was from Tabuk, a city in Saudi Arabia.
A keyword search in Arabic, with a date filter for October 2018, led us to an Instagram post shared on October 27, 2018, by a verified user named Ada Monzon. The Spanish caption of the post also said that the video is from Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. As per NASA, Ada Monzon is the first female meteorologist from Puerto Rico. Presently, she is the Chief Meteorologist of leading Spanish media Wapa TV.
An Al Arabiya report from October 26, 2018, confirmed that Tabuk in Saudi Arabia received extensive rainfall at the time.
Therefore, it is more than clear that the viral video is not related to the recent Dubai floods at all.
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