A video showing a huge fire near a flyover, with a fire engine trying to douse it, has been shared as a cylinder blast that took place in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki.
However, we found that the video was from Assam's Guwahati. According to news reports, a fire broke out in a shop, under the Bhangagarh flyover, where two LPG cylinders burst.
CLAIM
The video was shared as a reel on Facebook with a caption, "Gas blast case Barabanki.”
![The video is old and shows a fire caused by a cylinder blast inside a shop located near the Bhangagarh flyover.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2022-11%2Fe75d7a2d-4140-4be6-a4dc-c428b109337a%2FUntitled_design.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
An archive of the post can be found here.
(Source: Facebook/Screenshot)
The video was liked by over 2,000 people on Facebook.
WHAT WE FOUND OUT
Using the InVID WeVerify Google Chrome extension, we extracted keyframes from the viral video and conducted a reverse image search on some of the keyframes.
While going through the search results, we came across a tweet that carried the same video, published on 21 August. The caption of the video said, "Cylinder Blast Triggers Massive Fire In Guwahati.”
![The video is old and shows a fire caused by a cylinder blast inside a shop located near the Bhangagarh flyover.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2022-11%2F2f94193d-a659-45ff-aa79-21dda4af3cfe%2Fagfhf.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
An archive of the tweet can be found here.
(Source: Twitter/Screenshot)
A report by East Mojo, published on 20 August, stated, “Fire broke out in a shop under the Bhangagarh flyover (Guwahati) on Saturday morning after a biryani outlet situated on the ground floor of a complex caught fire due to the bursting of two LPG cylinders.”
The publication also put out a video of the incident on their YouTube channel.
We compared the viral video with the video report published by East Mojo and noticed several similarities.
![The video is old and shows a fire caused by a cylinder blast inside a shop located near the Bhangagarh flyover.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2022-11%2F371af8c7-4879-4004-ac46-f1eaff85f4f5%2FViral_Video.gif?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
Comparison between the viral video and East Mojo video.
(Photo: Altered by The Quint)
![The video is old and shows a fire caused by a cylinder blast inside a shop located near the Bhangagarh flyover.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2022-11%2F126e4a5d-a64f-4c31-8bfd-afabfa7200c2%2FViral_Video__2_.gif?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
Shops spotted in the East Mojo video.
(Source: YouTube/Google/Screenshot)
We also conducted a keyword search for gas cylinder blast in Barabanki, UP, but were unable to find any such report or video.
Evidently, an old video from Guwahati, showing a fire caused by a cylinder blast has gone viral as an incident from Barabanki.
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