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A video of a man rescuing pups of a dog has been making the rounds on social media with many people using hashtags of the Rurkey Syria earthquake.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is from Rajasthan, India, and was shared by a charitable organisation named Animal Aid Unlimited in August 2019.
Search and rescue operations in several parts of Turkey and Syria have entered the third day while the death toll has surpassed 11,700 following a series of devastating earthquakes. On social media, people have been sharing videos of rescue operations in the quake-affected areas.
Among them is a heart-melting video of pups being rescued that’s going viral on social media. The video shows a man and a dog digging through debris to rescue two small pups. Ultimately, the dog was reunited with what was presumably her children.
The text inside the video read, "The dog's child was buried under the ruins after the earthquake. It believes that they are still alive. Constantly digging the soil. A kind person helps it clean up the ruins together. Finally rescue a puppy. Then rescued the second puppy." While sharing the video people used hashtags related to the Turkey-Syria earthquakes. An archived version of this video can be seen here.
AFWA has found that the rescue op video is from neither Turkey nor Syria. It was from India.
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We went through the responses to one such tweet and noticed people pointing out that the video was from India. Subsequently, we ran a reverse search on keyframes from the viral video.
The results led us to similar images of a rescue operation featured in a Mirror report from September 12, 2019. The report mentioned that these visuals were released by a charity group named Animal Aid Unlimited, which rescued a dog in Rajasthan, India.
We found the verified Facebook page of Animal Aid Unlimited, a rescue centre, hospital, and sanctuary for ownerless street animals that operates in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Subsequently, we looked for the video on the page and found it was shared on August 28, 2019. This video was four-and-a-half minutes long and we noticed that it was laterally inverted when compared to the viral video.
Upon comparing frames of the viral video with this one, it became clear that both were the same.
The caption of this video did not mention anything about an earthquake but noted that the puppies were trapped after a house collapsed after rains. This video was also available on the group’s YouTube channel as well.
Therefore, it is safe to conclude that a 2019 video from Rajasthan was falsely shared as a rescue op following the Turkey-Syria earthquakes on February 6.
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