Old Video From Gujarat Revived As Crocodile Sighted In Punjab Floods

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BOOM found that the video is from August 2019 when a crocodile strayed into a residential area in Gujarat. We broke the video into key-frames and ran a reverse image search which showed a news bulletin by NDTV, that was uploaded to YouTube on August 3, 2019. The footage was shot during the floods that hit Gujarat early in August 2019. "A 10-feet-long crocodile which strayed in residential area was rescued by the combined efforts of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and forest department officials," reported Times of India on August 3, 2019. BOOM had previously fact-checked the same video when it was being shared falsely as from Patna, Bihar in September 2019.