AN X user, @Unabombaar, has posted a claim about a stampede and property damaged at a free outreach event by a bakery in Ogun State.
The claim was posted alongside a 17-second video which shows a crowded environment with many people gathered. Some individuals are seen on the roof of a building, which suddenly collapses, causing them to fall down. Multiple voices were also heard in the background.
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The caption on the video post read:
CLAIM
Video shows people scrambling for breads in Ogun State.
THE FINDINGS
Checks by The FactCheckHub show that the claim is FALSE!
When analyzing the video, our researcher noticed an Instagram (IG) watermark with the username: hadinaveed2031 on the clip.
A search for this username on Instagram led to the user’s profile on IG, where we observed a pattern of posting sensitive content.
When we subjected screenshots from the video to a Google Lens search, we found previous appearances of the video on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook, as seen here, here, here, and here. Notably, the audio in the original video differed from the one posted by the claimant on X.
The earliest appearance of the video was in July 2024. One of the versions had a caption in a different language. When translated using Google Translate, the original language was detected as Kannada and translated as follows:
Today, an incident occurred during the farewell of Ballari Server Hussain.
Other versions of the video were found with captions such as: “Bellary Muharram Incident 2024,” “Sarvar Husaini Bellary,” and “Muharram Incident in Edga, Bellary.”
One of the captions read:
“Today, an incident occurred during the farewell of Sarvar Husaini in Bellary. Many injuries were reported. Some individuals suffered broken legs, while one person sustained a head injury. Pray for their recovery.”
When “Bellary” was entered into the Google search engine, the results indicated that Ballari is a city in India, where Kannada is the primary language spoken.
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Although, The FactCheckHub could not independently verify the cause of the stampede, it was deduced that the incident took place in India and not in Ogun State, Nigeria as claimed in the X post.
THE VERDICT
Seasoned fact-checker and researcher Fatimah Quadri has written numerous fact-checks, explainers, and media literacy pieces for The FactCheckHub in an effort to combat information disorder. She can be reached at sunmibola_q on X or [email protected].
