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      Video From China Viral As Visuals Of Flooding In Wayanad

      BOOM found that the video was recorded much before the landslides occurred in Wayanad, Kerala's because of heavy rains.

      By - Srijit Das |
      Published -  1 Aug 2024 5:39 PM IST
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      Video From China Viral As Visuals Of Flooding In Wayanad
      CLAIMA timelapse video shows a flooded frontyard of a home in Wayanad district due to recent heavy rains.
      FACT CHECKThe video is not related to the ongoing situations in Kerala. It predates the landslides happened on July 30, 2024, in Wayanad district and reportedly shows flooding situation in China's Meizhou city in June this year.

      A timelapse video of a flooding front gate of a house in China is being shared with a false claim that it it is from the heavy rainfall that has caused floods and landslide in several parts of Kerala's Wayanad district.

      BOOM found that the footage is not from Wayanad, Kerala and shows a flooding incident in Meizhou city, China.

      More than 200 people have recently lost their lives due to some devastating landslides in Kerala's Wayanad district. News reports stated that the Indian Army was able to rescue around 1,000 people, with 220 individuals still missing because of the disaster. The villages of Mundakkai, Chooralmala, Attamala, and Noolpuzha in the district were the severely affected by landslides, added the reports.

      Several right-wing social media users shared the video with a Hindi caption that translates to, "Today you can see the real truth of Kerala model. Amit Shah ji said in the Parliament that the Central Meteorological Department sent a written warning to the Kerala government four times that a huge landslide would occur in Wayanad. The last warning was sent on 26 July in which it was said that the Kerala government should move people from that entire area to a safe place because there would be a landslide there. But the Kerala government did nothing. And more than 200 people died. This is the Kerala model of the leftists, where someone brings gold from his rectum and someone ignores the weather department's warning".

      (Original Text in Hindi: आज आप केरल मॉडल का असली सच्चाई देखिए संसद में अमित शाह जी ने कहा कि कुल चार बार केरल सरकार को केंद्र के मौसम विभाग ने लिखित चेतावनी भेजा कि वायनाड में काफी बड़ा भूस्खलन होगा 26 जुलाई को अंतिम चेतावनी भेजी गई थी जिसमें कहा गया था कि केरल सरकार उस पूरे एरिया से लोगों को सुरक्षित जगह पर ले जाए क्योंकि यहां भूस्खलन होगा लेकिन केरल सरकार ने कुछ नहीं किया और करीब 200 से ज्यादा लोगों का मौत हुआ यही वामपंथियों का केरल मॉडल है जो कोई अपने रेक्टम में से सोना लाता है तो कोई मौसम विभाग की चेतावनी को नजरअंदाज कर देता है)


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      The video carries a date and timestamp on the upper left corner indicating it was recorded on June 16, 2024. This is before the devastating landslide in Wayanad on July 30, 2024.

      We then ran a reverse image search on several keyframes from the video and found that a verified X account had posted the same video on June 23, 2024 detailing that the video was from Meizhou city in China.

      The text translates to, "Surveillance video reveals the truth: Pingyuan County reservoir released floodwater without warning, causing the flood to rise 2 meters in 3 hours! On June 16, at Huangtian Reservoir in Huangtian Village, Pingyuan County, Meizhou, Guangdong, the flood suddenly broke out at noon, leaving the villagers with nowhere to escape. The local villagers did not receive an evacuation notice until 3 pm, by which time the village was already submerged by 2 meters of floodwater. The official report stated that the flood caused 38 deaths and 2 missing persons."

      监控视频曝真相:平远县水库无预警泄洪,洪水3小时暴涨2米!
      6月16日,广东 梅州平远县黄田村黄田水库。
      中午突然泄洪,突然而至的洪水让村民无处可逃!当地村民到下午3点才接获通知要求撤离,这时村里已遭2米深的洪水淹没...官方通报称,洪水致38死2失联 pic.twitter.com/H8QSB5tgUT

      — 新闻调查 (@xinwendiaocha) June 23, 2024

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      Following this lead, we ran a related keyword search and came across a news report published by New Tang Dynasty Television on June 24, 2024, which included screenshots from the viral video.

      廣東梅州市暴雨導致至少38死2人失蹤,有消息指由於 #水庫洩洪 通知不及時,導致重大傷亡。平遠縣一個庭院被洪水淹沒的現場視頻觸目驚心。#新唐人https://t.co/BENNENMNpL

      — 新唐人電視台 (@NTDChinese) June 23, 2024

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      The NTDTV report in Chinese stated that the video, which initially appeared on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, shows the fully submerged front gate of a house in Zhangyan Village, Pingyuan County. According to the article, the incident occurred is from June 16 when officials at the Huangtian Reservoir in Huangtian Village, Pingyuan County, Meizhou, Guangdong Province, suddenly released floodwaters.

      The New York Times on June 24, 2024, reported on the heavy rainfall in the region as, "The city of Meizhou, home to about 3.8 million people, began experiencing "once-in-a-century" rainfall last week, according to state media. Initially, officials reported that nine people in Meizhou had died. But on Friday afternoon, the death toll leaped dramatically, as officials reported an additional 38 deaths in Pingyuan, a county under Meizhou’s jurisdiction. Two more people there were still missing, they said, though no more information has been released."

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      Claim :   Video shows a courtyard being flooded in Kerala's Wayanad district due to recent heavy rains.
      Claimed By :  Social Media Users
      Fact Check :  False
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