Claim: A Facebook post claims that a video shows the River Chenab in Punjab, Pakistan after India released flood water.
Fact: The claim is false. The video is not from Pakistan but is actually from Iran when flash floods in January 2020 caused massive damage.
On 1 August 2022, a Facebook page shared a video of floodwater rushing, with the caption “Indian Release Flood In River Chenab | Flood From Kashmir | Flood 2022.”
The Urdu language audio of the video says that this situation arose after India released 300,000 cusecs (cubic feet per second) of water into the Chenab river flowing through Pakistan-controlled Kashmir after ten hours of heavy rain.
The video was shared after some Pakistani media organisations claimed that India discharged floodwaters into Pakistan’s side of the Chenab river in July 2022. Soch Fact Check has not investigated this claim.
Fact or Fiction?
Soch Fact Check conducted a Reverse Image Search on Google and found reports of flooding in Iran from January 2020. A news report published by SaedNews on 12 January 2020 features the same video and claims that it shows effects of flood in Nikshahr in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province.
A keyword search related to January 2020 Iran flood pulls up a report by Iranian media outlet Aparat that also features the video in question.
The bridge in the video is located in Nikshahr City. The construction firm Shadab Company also posted project construction images of the bridge back in 2019.
Conclusion: The video showing a bridge deluged in floodwater is not from Pakistan; it was taken in Iran in 2020.