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The video clip is being shared with the claim that Muslims in Bangladesh have raped and murdered scores of Hindu women of various ages.
One of the Indian X users posted the video with a Hindi caption that translates to: “Hindu women of Bangladesh, aged between 1 and 70 years, were raped and murdered by a group of 20 Muslims.” The post has gathered 476,000 views and over 6,000 reposts and quotes as of this writing.
Some X and Facebook posts with the claim can be seen here, here, here and here.
Fact-Check
An investigation by Rumor Scanner reveals that the video circulating, which claims to show the rape and murder of Hindu women in Bangladesh, actually depicts a tragic incident from Uttar Pradesh, India, not Bangladesh.
A reverse image search on a keyframe from the viral video led us to an Instagram post dated July 5, 2024. From the post, it is certain that the viral video is at least 5 months old.
Another reverse image search on a different frame of the viral video led us to a YouTube video uploaded on July 3, 2024, with Hindi captions on an Indian YouTube channel named Abhinandan Kumar. We conducted a thorough comparison of this video with the one that went viral and concluded that they depict the same location.
The caption of the video suggests that it depicts the aftermath of a tragic stampede, at the venue of a satsang (spiritual prayer) of one ‘Bhole Baba’, in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. Furthermore, the video comes with a description in Hindi, reporting the death of 122 people, most of them women.
Further running a relevant keyword search, we have found a report by News18 on July 2, 2024, with the title ’50k Attendees, High Casualties Among Women: What We Know So Far About The Hathras Tragedy.’
The report stated that at least 116 people, including many women and children, lost their lives in a stampede during a religious gathering in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, on July 2, 2024. The incident occurred during a ‘satsang’ (prayer meeting) held in honour of a local guru, Bhole Baba, also known as Narayan Sakar Hari, which drew a crowd of about 50,000 people.
Another report by India Today, published on July 15, 2024, with the title ‘Hathras stampede | A litany of lapses’ also discusses the incident, noting that the death toll at that time was approximately 123 lives.
Notably, the same video was spread in August 2024 with a similar claim of Hindu women being raped and killed in Bangladesh. Indian fact-checking organizations debunked it then, but Hindutva handles are spreading the same video once again, falsely portraying the condition of Hindus in Bangladesh.
To summarize, the viral video circulating on social media in India, which claims that scores of Hindu women were raped and killed by Muslims in Bangladesh, actually depicts the aftermath of a tragic stampede in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, India, on July 2, 2024. Therefore, the claim regarding Hindu women being raped and killed in Bangladesh is false.
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