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| - Misleading: Video shows old gunshot accident in India, not device explosion in Lebanon
A video posted on Sept. 28 on X was accompanied by a claim in Chinese that the clip shows “the moment the Lebanese police chief’s mobile phone was remotely detonated by Israeli agents, seriously injuring him and causing him to lose an arm.”
Another X user also posted the same video on the same day, and together, they gained more than 6,100 likes and 900 shares.
These posts circulated after pagers and walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanon on Sept. 17 and 18. The attacks, widely believed to be an Israeli operation targeting the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, killed dozens of people, including children, and injured thousands of others, according to media reports.
However, this video has nothing to do with what happened in Lebanon. It shows an Indian bank security guard who accidentally shot himself in 2022 with a shotgun.
A reverse image search, followed by keyword searches in Hindi and English, led us to a higher-quality version of the same video on a Hindi-language Facebook page on Oct. 11, 2022.
This 34-second video is a CCTV recording time-stamped “2022.09.08,” indicating that the video was taken on Sept. 8, 2022.
The CCTV footage shows what happened before and after the shotgun accidentally went off.
In the first 26 seconds, the guard was chatting and looking at his mobile phone. He then placed his right forearm and left hand on the muzzle when the firearm exploded. In the video, the shotgun and the mobile phone can be seen falling to the ground.
After the accident, the phone appeared to be in one piece. It did not appear to have exploded or been damaged.
We identified a logo of the State Bank of India (SBI) on an ATM, which suggested the incident occurred in one of the SBI branches.
With the help of a Hindi-speaking journalist from India, Annie Lab did a keyword search and found a news report about “an accidental gunshot in an SBI branch” in 2022.
The report was published by Hindi-language media Patrika on Sept. 9, 2022, one day after the time-stamped date on the CCTV footage,
According to the report, a security guard accidentally shot himself when he was working in an SBI branch at Station Road in Ashoknagar, a city in Madhya Pradesh state, in central India. The injured guard, called Bhanu Pratap Jadoun, was immediately taken to the hospital.
Two other local media outlets, Diwakar News and Dainik Bhaskar, also reported the incident in September 2022 and included a video showing the victim on a stretcher with his left palm and right arm bandaged. The victim’s clothing corresponds with the guard’s uniform in the CCTV footage. SBI badges can also be spotted on both of his shoulders.
Another Indian journalist also helped us contact local authorities. A police officer at Ashoknagar’s Kotwali police station, which handled the case, confirmed to Sanjeev Yadav, a reporter of Dainik Bhaskar, that the CCTV video showed the accident in the SBI branch in 2022.
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