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  • 2021-07-31 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Video Show A Landslide In Pakistan? (en)
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  • A video shared on Facebook allegedly shows a landslide that occurred in Pakistan. Verdict: False The video shows a July 25 landslide in India. Fact Check: The roughly one-minute video depicts rocky debris tumbling rapidly down the side of a mountain. At one point, a boulder hits a nearby bridge, causing it to break in half and fall into the river beneath it. Multiple Facebook users have claimed in recent days that the video shows a landslide in Pakistan, with one such post having received over 6,200 views. That claim is, however, not correct. (RELATED: Does This Image Show A Two-Story House Caught In A Landslide?) Check Your Fact determined through a keyword search that the pictured landslide actually occurred in India. News outlets, including The New York Times , CNN , Reuters and Global News , published the same footage with reporting about it showing a July 25 landslide that happened in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India. It killed at least nine people, according to CNN and The New York Times . Landslides are caused by disturbances in the natural stability of a slope and can accompany heavy rains or follow droughts, earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . India, which has landslide-prone areas in the Himalayas, has experienced heavy monsoon rains this season, The New York Times reported. On the day before the landslide in the video occurred in India, a landslide in Pakistan’s Balochistan province killed at least four coal mine workers, according to the Press Trust of India . Last year, 16 people were killed in northern Pakistan from a landslide that buried their minibus under debris, according to the Associated Press . (en)
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