Old Clip of Army Personnel Shooting Falsely Linked to Pahalgam Terror Attack

The video has existed on the internet since at least 2020 and has no connection to the terror attack in Pahalgam.

An old video of an Army person shooting at bodies has gone viral on social media, where users have incorrectly linked it to the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir.

(Source: Facebook/Altered by The Quint)

A short video showing an Indian Army person shooting at what appears to be two bodies laying in snow is being shared on social media, where users have linked it to the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam on 22 April.

• Some users shared the clip after the terror attack, saying that it shows the Army 'taking revenge'.

An archived version of this post can be seen here.

(Source: Facebook/Screenshot)

(Archives of more posts sharing similar claims can be seen here and here.)

Is it true?: No, the claim is misleading.

• The video is old and has existed on the internet since at least 2020. It has no connection to the Pahalgam terror attack.

How did we find out the truth?: We ran a reverse image search on the video, which led us to a post with a section of this clip shared by a Facebook page called 'Indian Military Images' on 18 December 2020.

The post carried a few seconds of the viral clip.

(Source: Facebook/Altered by The Quint)

• We also came across a longer version of the video, shared on a website with graphic content, where the expletive-ridden video was published two years ago.

• In the video, which was titled 'Indian army executes Kashmiri militants', a man could be heard speaking in Hindi and identifying the army person as an "Indian Army commando."

A longer version of the same clip was shared two years ago.

(Source: BestGore/Altered by The Quint)

• While we could not independently verify the location or the date of the video, it is evident that the video has no connection to the terror attack in Pahalgam.

Conclusion: An old video is being shared to claim that it shows the Indian Army retaliating after a terror attack in J&K's Pahalgam.

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