Bulldozer Destroying Street Vendor's Cart is From Chennai and Not Andhra Pradesh

This video is from Chennai and shows the bulldozer damaging and pushing aside street vendors.

Fact-Check: This video is from Chennai.

(Source: The Quint) 

A video showing a bulldozer destroying a cart of a street vendor is being shared as one from Andhra Pradesh.

What did users say?: Those sharing wrote that the current Chandrababu Naidu-led government in Andhra Pradesh was hitting livelihood with a bulldozer.

An archive of the post can be found here.

(Source: X/Screenshot) 

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)

Is this true?: The claim is false as the video is from Chennai, Tamil Nadu and not Andhra Pradesh.

How did we find out?: We divided the video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

• We found two posts on X by users Hate Detector and Gayathri Raguramm which included the same video as the viral clip. Both posts were recently posted.

• According to the two posts, the video was from Chennai, Tamil Nadu and not Andhra Pradesh, as claimed.

• With a relevant keyword search, we came across an article from India Today from 30 June. It's feature image also included an image which was similar to a frame in the viral video.

• India Today reported that many street vendors were in trouble as a result of the traffic department's crackdown on them in an effort to remove roadside carts in Chennai

• To lessen traffic in Tambaram area of Chennai, the officials crushed and removed the carts using an excavator.

• Images of the excavator smashing carts went viral on social media. The footage showed a bulldozer's claw arm falling on a pushcart, breaking its top, and then pushing it away.

Here is the link to the India Today article.

(Source: India Today/Screenshot) 

• To verify further, we geolocated the location by searching for more clips of this incident. A Zee News Tamil report showed a wider frame of the incident, which showed Bank of Baroda and 'Ayothidass' in the background.

This is where the incident occurred. 

(Source: Altered by The Quint) 

• We searched for the two on Google Maps and it directly took us to the spot where this incident occured.

Conclusion: The viral video is being falsely shared as one from Andhra Pradesh.

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