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Video of woman sitting between train coupler holding her infant is from Bangladesh, not India

MahimaJune 26, 2023639

A video of a woman sitting between train coupler holding her infant is being shared with a claim that it is from India.

A few Twitter users going by the handle @/Mishra_14 , Ambedkarite @/RajeshSongara5, and @/kamalBararaAsp who is Bhim Army Haryana State President as per his bio, tweeted a heart-wrenching video, in which a woman is sitting between the coupling of a train cradling her infant as the train speeds up. The user tweeted the video and wrote that the woman in the video does not have money to buy a train ticket and Godi media is busy celebrating the achievements of an illiterate prime minister. The tweet has so far garnered 6.1k likes.

https://twitter.com/Mishra__14/status/1672854448069300224?s=20

https://twitter.com/RajeshSongara5/status/1672947534443200512?s=20

इस महीला के पास पैसा नही था ट्रेन का टिकट लेने के लिए इसकी जिम्मेदार भी सरकार ही है और गोदी मीडिया
अनपढ़ इंसान का डंका बजा रही है
लानत है
इस से ज्यादा शर्मनाक ओर क्या सकता है । pic.twitter.com/ThpnnyVAoh
— kamal kumar Barara (@kamalBararaAsp) June 26, 2023

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Fact Check

We started our research with the reverse image search, and came across a tweet by PIB fact check team from May, 2020.

The tweet by the PIB refutes the claim of this video being from India. According to the PIB fact check team the video is from Bangladesh, not India.

Claim-A video of a woman with an infant travelling between train bogies is circulating in social media stating these are migrants trying to go home during #Lockdown due to #Covid19India #PIBFactCheck: #FakeNews. This is an old video from before 2016, from Bangladesh & not India pic.twitter.com/aXySNnTnBJ
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) May 18, 2020

Moreover, on the shutter stock website, we also discovered a stock photo of a different trains in Bangladesh, which has passenger train bogies that has two white strings on the lower side of the train, exactly below the windows, similar to the train in the video.

Bangladesh Passenger train — Bangladesh’s passenger train

Apart from that, we also found that the same video uploaded on the YouTube channel based in Bangladesh Prothom Alo. The video was uploaded on September 13, 2016 with a title, “ঈদ মানে ঘরে ফেরা, মানসিক বা শারীরিকভাবে” (Eid means returning home, mentally or physically).

Source: Prothom Alo

Claim	A video of a woman holding her infant while sitting between train’s coupler is from India
Claimed by	Twitter users
Fact Check	Fake

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