An old video of a deadly train fire has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times as it was shared online in false positions, claiming that it shows a fire that killed five people in Central Pakistan in February 2025 Was gone The video is actually aired in reports. In October 2019, an explosion occurred in a crowded train killing 74 people.
After being posted on Facebook on February 9, 2025, many train trains were shown showing many train trains seen more than 123,000 times.
Its Urdu-language caption was read: “Breaking news. Five people were killed and many others were injured after a Tejgam train. Fire near Liaqatpur Tanwari station. ,
“According to sources, the train was going from Karachi to Lahore.”
One of Pakistan’s oldest and most popular rail services, Tejgam, runs between the city of Garison in Rawalpindi, neighboring Islamabad, between Tejgam, Karachi. Liaqatpur city is accompanied by train route in Central Pakistan (Stored link).
Screenshot of False Facebook Post, captured on February 11, 2025
The same video was shared elsewhere on Facebook and X which was also in the post Claimed that it set a fire that boarded a train In February 2025.
“Very sad,” read a comment on one of the posts.
Another said: “Can Allah be pity. How all trains suddenly caught fire?”
But An officer with Liaquatpur police And both a Pakistan Railway spokesperson told AFP that there have been no incidents of train fire recently.
Pakistan Railway spokesperson Babar Ali Raza said on 17 February, “No fire had occurred in any train in the last year.” The video actually shows a fire that took place in 2019,
Keyframes used from shared videos using a reverse image search keyframes on Google In October 2019, a report about the fire broke through the Tejgam Express train, killing 74 people (Stored link).
According to officials, the fire began when some passengers used gas cylinders used to cook breakfast, causing the flames passing through three vehicles passing through the train near Rahm Yaar Khan in Punjab province. sent.
Gas cylinders are considered on trains, and the then Railway Minister of Pakistan Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said that it was a “mistake” to allow him to allow him on the board.
Footage on social media was shared in news outlets at that time, including X posts. BBC Urdu And 92 news (stored here and here) on 31 October and 1 November 2019.
Screenshot compared to incorrectly shared videos (left) and BBC Urdu videos (right)
