A video of two men gunning down a group of people in an alley has been gathering a lot of traction on social media. Users claim that the visuals are from Mumbai’s Dongri area. A Twitter user shared the clip with a caption that read, “Shots fired in Dongri. How many more good days?”.
Shoot out at dongari
Or kitney Achhey din pic.twitter.com/bPyq1wbfwI— #binod (@binod__budy) March 8, 2021
We received a request to fact-check the video on the Alt News WhatsApp number and mobile app. The clip is also being circulated with a Gujarati caption where it is described as an incident from Vakhariya Bazar in Gujarat’s Veraval.
Similarly, another user wrote, “Down with these Nizams and leaders. Such violent incidents have become common practice under their rule. Scenes from Dongri, Mumbai.”
Fact-check
We noticed that a user named @khan25_shoaib replied that the video shows a movie set. He also posted a clip where some people that appear in the viral video can be seen.
— SHOAIB,KHAN25 (@khan25_shoaib) March 8, 2021
The people who have been ‘shot’ can be spotted in both videos. Nobody is coming to their aid and there is no panic on the street which suggest that it is a movie shooting video. Furthermore, the man who was shot gets up and one can also see cameras and other equipment on the other side.
People can be heard speaking in Gujarati in the video posted by @khan25_shoaib. We performed a search based on this and found a post on the ‘Our gir Somnath’ Facebook page. According to the post, the clip going viral on WhatsApp is fake. It also mentioned that no such incident occurred in the Veraval market.
હમણાં એક બે દિવસથી વોટ્સ એપ મા ફરતો આ વીડિયો તદન ખોટો છે વેરાવળ વખારિયા બજાર મા કોઈ પણ મર્ડર થયું નથી ખોટી અફવાઓથી દૂર…
Posted by Our gir somnath on Monday, March 8, 2021
A video of a film shooting is viral as an actual incident of people gunned down in Mumbai. This article will be updated if and when we are able to ascertain the area where the movie shooting took place.
