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Old Clip of Fish Flopping Around in Georgia Falsely Linked to Chennai Floods

This video dates back to 2018 and is from Tbilisi, Georgia.

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A video showing several fish flopping and wriggling around on the floor of a supermarket is being linked to Chennai floods.

(You can view archives of similar claims here and here.)

What's the truth?: This video is being falsely linked to Chennai floods.

  • It dates back to 2018 and is from a supermarket located in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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How did we find out the truth?: We performed a reverse image search on some of the keyframes of the viral video and this led us to a YouTube video.

  • This was shared by a channel named 'ViralHog' on 5 February 2018.

  • According to the description of the video, this incident happened in Georgia.

  • Further, we came across news reports by Mirror and Daily Mail from 11 and 12 February 2018, respectively.

  • Both reports carried the same video and stated that an aquarium tank shattered in a supermarket named Carrefour in Tbilisi, Georgia.

  • Following which, several fish from the tank fell out on the ground and wriggled around in shallow water.

More about Chennai floods: Cyclone Michaung is the latest cyclone to have struck the Bay of Bengal, wreaking havoc in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh since since 4 December.

  • At least 12 people are said to have died in Chennai, amid heavy rainfall induced by the cyclone.

  • According to the state government, Tamil Nadu witnessed three months of rain within just two days.

Conclusion: An old video showing several fish wriggling around in a Georgian supermarket is being falsely linked to the recent floods in Chennai.

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