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"According To The Information We Received The Incident Occurred This Morning (10/05) India Time."
A similar claim about killer bees in India was also shared with this video on Facebook on May 13, 2020. It includes two of the clips in the other misleading post and adds two different ones.
A similar footage with a similar claim was also shared in Indonesian on Facebook here, here and here.
The claim is false. Three of the videos show victims of a gas leak in India; one clip shows a bee attack in Nicaragua; one shows swarming bees in New York City; and one clip shows a hornet attacking a rat that has circulated since at least 2018. The photos are stock photos of an Asian giant hornet.First video
The Central Z-1 Fire Department in Managua, located around 2.5 kilometers from the shopping center, posted that the incident had happened outside Metrocentro shopping mall.
When contacted by AFP, the fire department explained the incident was caused by Africanised bees. "The video and photos correspond to the same day (April 4) and indeed there has been no attention in that center (shopping center) in recent days, it has been the only one in the year and in recent years," a spokesman said.
The scenery seen in the first video matches this panoramic photo of Metrocentro that is tagged to the location on Google Maps.
Below is a screenshot comparison of the first video in the misleading posts (L) and this photo from Google Maps (R):
The fire department also shared a photo that shows the name of the shopping mall, Metrocentro, in its Facebook post.Second video
The video's caption reads: "11 dead, 1000 reportedly sick after a gas leak in a chemical plant in Vizag. The incident has been compared to Bhopal Gas Tragedy." Vizag refers to Visakhapatnam, a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
The deadly gas leak on May 7, 2020, at a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam killed at least 12 people and left hundreds more hospitalised, AFP reported.
Below is a screenshot comparison of the second video in the misleading posts (L) and the Prag News video (R):Third video
The French-language title of the video says: "India: gas leak in a chemical factory."
The caption's first sentence states: "In the middle of the night, a gas leak occurred at the LG Polymers plant in the city of Visakhapatnam in southeast India." Fourth video
AP31 is among the official first characters for license plates for Visakhapatnam, as stated here on the Government of Andhra Pradesh's website.Fifth video
Sixth video
A reverse image search on Google found the earliest version of the clip was published in this YouTube video in July 2018. The title reads: "Hornet Extreme Attack On The Mouse".
Below is a screenshot comparison of the clip from the misleading posts (L) and the YouTube video (R):
Screenshot comparison of the sixth video from the misleading posts (L) and the YouTube video (R)Asian giant hornet
A Google reverse image search found they were taken from a photo of a Japanese giant hornet published on stock photo website iStock here.
Below is a screenshot comparison of the pictures from the first misleading post (L and middle) and the iStock photo (R):
AFP has debunked some of the videos after they were shared with other false claims in other languages: in English here, in Arabic here and in Spanish here.
The Man City manager praises the club's medical department and reveals that there are no worries on the injury front ahead of Saturday's Fulham encounter
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