Video of Woman Being Surrounded by Men on Bangladesh's Beach Viral as From India

Fact-check: An old video of a woman on a beach surrounded by several people is from Bangladesh and not India, as claimed.

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A video showing a woman sitting on a beach while being surrounded several men is going viral on social media with the claim that it is from India.

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What's the truth?: This video is from Bangladesh and dates back to 2019.

How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search on some of the keyframes of the video and came across an old video on Facebook.

• This was shared by AsoOmii Jay, an entrepreneur from Canada on 11 March 2019.

• The caption stated that this video was from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

• We found the same video on her Instagram as well.

• We also reached out to Jay who confirmed to us that this video is not from India but from Bangladesh.

• She had also shared a story in 2021 about this incident clarifying that she was visited Bangladesh for humanitarian work with Rohingya refugees in 2019.

• "I went to a local beach with another worker to sit. I was surrounded by a lot of local people. They asked to take photos with me and were amazed to see a foreigner in a local beach and not a resort," she added in her story.

This video is from 2019.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

Conclusion: An old video of a woman on a beach surrounded by several people is from Bangladesh and not India, as claimed.

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