Old Video From Bangladesh Falsely Shared as One of Bakri Eid in West Bengal

The video is at least a year old and was shot in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

A video of a housing society, showing streets covered in blood and animal carcasses, has gone viral on social media, where users have claimed that it shows visuals of Bakri Eid or Eid-Ul-Adha being celebrated in the state of West Bengal.

At the time of writing this report, this video by X user '@Changu311' had gathered over 57,000 views.

(Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here, here, and here.)

Is it true?: No, the video is at least one year old and shows visuals from Dhaka, Bangladesh.

How did we find out the truth?: We noticed that the viral video carried a watermark reading 'Tw/@AshwiniSahaya'.

• Taking a cue from this, we looked for the account on X, formerly known as Twitter, and came across a profile for one Ashwini Srivastava.

• This user had shared the same video on 1 July 2023, mentioning that the video showed Bakri Eid in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Geolocating the video: To help identify the specific location, we reached out to fact-checker Tanvir Mahtab Abir from Rumor Scanner Bangladesh, who confirmed that the video was from the country.

• He said that the visuals were from the "Shopnonagar residential area of ​​Mirpur, Dhaka," and shared a link to the area's location.

• On comparing pictures of this residential area to the viral video, it becomes evident that the video was shot in Mirpur, Dhaka.

Conclusion: An old video of people observing Eid-Ul-Adha in Dhaka, Bangladesh has gone viral as a video from West Bengal.

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