Fact Check: This video is being viral as a mock drill of a real train accident.
A video is becoming increasingly viral on social media. The video purportedly appears to be of a train accident, where two coaches of the train are crowded together and one coach is seen standing on top of the other. During this time, a rescue team can also be seen taking out and rescuing people allegedly trapped in a train accident. By sharing a viral video on social media, it is being claimed that a major train accident has occurred in Bikaner.
By sharing the viral video on Facebook with the Hindi language caption “Bikaner Two trains collided near Lalgarh railway station. Rescue work continues.
Facebook’s viral post link here see
Fact Check:
We checked Newsmobile and found that the viral video is not of the real incident.
We investigated the truth behind the video going viral on social media. First of all we broke the viral video into some keyframes and then started searching through the reverse image search tool on Google. Video us during the search RajBhaduriAviatorFound on a Twitter page named Twitter that was uploaded on November 15, 2024. Here information is given in the caption of the video that this is a video of a mock drill. Mock drill is not a real incident but an exercise.
NONSense
There was no ACTUAL accident at Bikaner
This is MOCK DRILLS being done by Railways and RPF along with Disaster management to practice dealing with accidents. https://t.co/lIuvPz3o44
— RajBhaduriAviator (@RajBhads90) November 15, 2024
Based on the above information, we started searching closely on Google. During the search we came across a viral video information magazine called website Found on, which was published on November 14, 2024. Information is given here that Railways organized a mock drill at Lalgarh station yard of Bikaner division to test the preparations for rescue during a train accident. In this fake accident, the agility of health, administration, NDRF, SDRF and civil rescue teams was assessed. 
During investigation, from the above facts, we found out that the viral video is not of a real train accident, but of a mock drill. Which is being shared on social media with misleading claims.
