This Clip of Man Stealing Phone From Running Train Is From Bangladesh, Not India

The train running in the video shows a passenger train in Bangladesh, and is not from India.

A video of a man using a stick to hit a person's arm to snatch a mobile phone from a running train has gone viral on social media platforms.

The claim: The video is being shared with text in Hindi, which reads, "ये बांग्लादेशी/रोहिंग्या लोग RailTrack के किनारे झोपड़ी बनाकर रहते & ऐसी हरकते करतें है"|

[Translation: These Bangladeshi/Rohingya people live in huts along the rail track and do these kinds of actions.]

• The post insinuates that the person committing theft in the video is a Bangladeshi or Rohingya migrant in India.

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

But...?: The claim is misleading as the video shows visuals from Bangladesh, not India.

How do we know?: On conducting a reverse image search on some screenshots of the clip, we came across a flipped and clearer version of the video, where we noticed a few details.

The green and beige train carried text in the Bangla script all over each bogey.

• In India, trains predominantly carry text in Hindi and English, and not regional languages.

• We also saw that one of the bogeys bore the number '2319'.

• The text 'BR' was also visible on the train.

• The Indian Railways network has 17 operational railway zones (18 in total). However, none of them abbreviate to 'BR'.

• This indicates that the video is not from India.

• Taking a cue from the visuals, we ran another reverse image search, supplemented with the keywords "BR train 2319".

• This led us to a photograph of a train on Alamy, which mentioned that it showed visuals from Dhaka, Bangladesh.

When we compared this photo to the video in the claim, we noticed that both of them showed similar signs for intercity trains.

We also came across visuals of similar trains shared with the number 2319 on social media, where they were shared as passenger trains in Bangladesh.

While we could not independently verify the source or the context behind the video, we can confirm that the video shows a train running in Bangladesh.

Conclusion: A video from Bangladesh is being widely shared with the misleading claim that it shows Bangladeshi or Rohingya migrants committing theft in India.

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