Claim
Video of heavy winds from Cyclone Nivar causing a billboard to fall and injure bikers at Poonamallee high road in Chennai
Fact
BOOM found that the video is from Karachi, Pakistan when a sudden downpour lashed the city in August 2020. The same video was earlier viral claiming it shows bikers injured when rains caused floods in Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad. We had then found a news report in Pakistani news site, The Express Tribune, which said that two motorcyclists were injured by a billboard near Metropole Hotel in Karachi in August.
BOOM found the video is from Karachi, Pakistan when heavy rains lashed the city in August.
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