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  • 2021-11-15 (xsd:date)
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  • No, video shows oil pipeline explosion in Egypt, not Zimbabwe (en)
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  • A video shared on Instagram in South Africa shows a large cloud of dark smoke above a line of burning cars. People run from the fire, some appearing to drag others away from the flames. The caption in the Instagram post reads: Zimbabwean Men tried to steal oil from a pipeline then it ended up in a disaster after one shot at the oil tank. The video was posted on 2 November 2021, but no details are given of where or when it was shot. We investigated. Fire at Egypt's Shuqair-Mostorod crude oil pipeline We ran a screenshot from the first few seconds of the video through Berify , a reverse image search engine. This led us to a video on YouTube uploaded by Global News , a Canadian television network, on 14 July 2020. The video is a longer clip of the same footage as in the Instagram post. But the news network makes no mention of Zimbabwe or Zimbabweans. The video is captioned: Cars set ablaze after massive fire breaks out along pipeline in Egypt. The description of the video says that a massive fire broke out in Egypt's Shuqair-Mostorod crude oil pipeline and at least 12 people were injured. A search for Egypt's Shuqair-Mostorod crude oil pipeline fire revealed several articles reporting on the incident . According to Reuters , a witness said around two dozen abandoned cars had been torched. The video was also published by UK’s Sky News. It doesn’t show Zimbabwean men trying to steal oil. (en)
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