A video is becoming increasingly viral on social media. The video is of an incident where several stray dogs fatally attack a woman while walking on the road. It can be seen in the video that many stray dogs surround the woman from all sides, later all those dogs start brutally scratching and dragging the woman who has fallen on the ground.
The same video is being shared on social media and it is being claimed that this viral video of the incident of fatal attack on a woman by street stray dogs is from Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
After sharing the viral video on Facebook, it is written in the Hindi language caption that ‘Terror of dogs in Agra, an elderly woman was attacked, hair-raising video, the woman had gone out for a morning walk.
Facebook’s viral post link here See.
Fact Check:
During Newsmobile’s investigation, we found out that the recent viral video is not from Agra in Uttar Pradesh.
We investigated to know the truth of 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. During the search we found a keyframe of the viral video published on a website called lokmat on December 16, 2024. an article Found in. According to the article, the incident in the viral video took place at Wadala Chowk in Jalandhar, Punjab.
We started searching closely on Google for confirmation. During the search, we found information about the viral video on the official X handle of Uttar Pradesh Police. Where the police said that the incident in the viral video is not from Agra in Uttar Pradesh but from Jalandhar in Punjab.
A video has gone viral on social media and news has also been published in some newspapers that a woman was attacked by a pack of dogs in Agra. This incident happened in East Punjab, Jalandhar and not in Agra. Please publish/share news in media only after verifying it.https://t.co/UkCdyCJWMZ pic.twitter.com/xGDSzxRyhY
— POLICE COMMISSIONERATE AGRA (@agrapolice) December 24, 2024
According to the information we got on Google during investigation, the viral video is not from Agra in Uttar Pradesh but from Jalandhar in Punjab, which is being shared with misleading claims.
