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Viral Video of Goats Being Thrown From Truck Is From Maharashtra, Not UP’s Unnao

The viral video of goats being thrown out of a truck is from Maharashtra, not Uttar Pradesh.

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A video showing goats being thrown out of a moving truck has gone viral on social media.

What is the claim?: The video is being shared to claim that the incident took place along the Kanpur-Unnao road in Uttar Pradesh.

The video was shared with the same claim by Hindi news organisation Live Hindustan and Hindustan Times.

(Note: Swipe to view both claims.)

  • An archive of this tweet can be seen here.

    (Source: Twitter/Screenshot)

(Archives of more claims can be seen here, here, here and here.)

But...?: The claim is false.

We found that the video was taken in Maharashtra, around the state's Ghoti area in Nashik district.

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How did we find out?: We carefully observed the video and noticed a highway signboard towards the end of this video.

  • On zooming in, we saw that it mentioned the distance to Maharashtra's Aurangabad (now known as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar) as 206 kilometres and showed the name Ghoti with a single digit next to it.

The viral video of goats being thrown out of a truck is from Maharashtra, not Uttar Pradesh.

We noticed a signboard in the video.

(Source: Facebook/Altered by The Quint)

  • Under one of the claims, we came across a reply by Unnao Police's verified Twitter account.

  • They said that the claim about the video being from Unnao was false, adding that the incident took place along the Igatpuri-Ghoti road in Maharashtra.

The viral video of goats being thrown out of a truck is from Maharashtra, not Uttar Pradesh.

Unnao police said that the video was from Maharashtra.

(Source: Twitter/Screenshot)

  • Taking a cue from this, we looked for the distance between Ghoti and Aurangabad on Google Maps.

  • It showed the distance between the toll plaza at Ghoti to Aurangabad as 206 kilometres, which matches the board from the video.

The viral video of goats being thrown out of a truck is from Maharashtra, not Uttar Pradesh.

Google Maps showed the distance from Ghoti to Aurangabad as 206 kms.

(Source: Google Maps/Altered by The Quint)

The Quint reached out to the authorities in Igatpuri for a confirmation and will update this article if and when it is received.

(With inputs from Piyush Rai.)

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