Does This Video Show a Rafting Mishap in Rishikesh? No, It’s From Bosnia

The video shows a rafting mishap on Bosnia's Vrbas river and doesn't show visuals from Rishikesh, as claimed.

A video from Bosnia is being shared with the misleading claim that it shows a rafting accident which claimed six lives in Uttarakhand's Rishikesh.

(Source: Instagram/Altered by The Quint)

A video showing a raft with five people traversing a river before upturning is being shared on social media.

The claim: Those sharing this clip have claimed that it shows an accident in Uttarakhand's Rishikesh, which is a popular destination for rafting.

An archived version of this post can be seen here.

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

(Archives of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here and here.)

Is it true?: While the incident is real, it does not show visuals from India.

• The clip dates back to March 2025 and shows a rafting mishap on the Vrbas river in Bosnia.

How did we find out the truth?: We ran a reverse image search on the clip with the help of Google Lens, which led us to a flipped version of the same video on YouTube.

• Repeating the same step on this YouTube short showed us a report published on 30 March 2025 by Serbian news outlet Srbija Danas, which included screenshots of the viral clip.

• It said that it showed visuals of a raft capsizing on the river Vrbas in Bosnia. No injuries or casualties were reported.

This screenshot shows a translated version of the report.

(Source: Srbija Danas/Screenshot)

• Another report carrying the video of the incident, uploaded to Bosnian newspaper Nezavisne novine's YouTube channel, said that the mishap happened in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka.

• In this clip, it could be seen that the people were able to flip the raft back in the right direction after the incident.

• The organisation also published a text report, where it said that the video reportedly showed five members of a rafting club named "Buk".

Conclusion: A video showing a rafting mishap on Bosnia's Vrbas river is being shared to falsely claim that it shows visuals from Rishikesh in India.

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