A disturbing video depicting a severely injured woman on a brick road at night has been widely circulated, falsely claiming to be from Bangladesh. The video shows the woman unable to speak due to severe facial injuries. In reality, the incident occurred in West Bengal, India, where a woman was brutally murdered in the Bakultala area of Jaynagar.
Sharing the video on X (Formerly Twitter) @Bangladesh_Fact wrote, “Naked women! Naked mothers and sisters! Naked red freedom…! This is not a movie shoot! This is the image of the new country of the fascist Yunus, who nurtures militancy as an inferior race! #StepDownYunus #SaveBangladesh” (Translated from Bengali)
বিবস্ত্র নারী! বিবস্ত্র মা-বোন! বিবস্ত্র লাল স্বাধীনতা…!
— Bangladesh Fact 🇧🇩 (@Bangladesh_Fact) January 25, 2025
এটা কোন সিনেমার শুটিং না! নিকৃষ্টতর জাতি হিসেবে জঙ্গিবাদের লালন-পালনকারী ফ্যাসিস্ট ইউনুসের নতুন দেশের চিত্র!#StepDownYunus #SaveBangladesh pic.twitter.com/UJMR8mr4Je
Propaganda account @ajaychauhan41 also shared the video and wrote, “Naked women! Mother and sister stripped naked! Naked red freedom…! This is not a film shoot! This is an anti-Hindu picture of the new country of the Islamic Yunus government of Bangladesh which promotes extremism”. (Translated from Hindi).
Several other users and Influencers have also shared the video and made similar claims. Their posts can be seen here, @ManojSh28986262, @jahed_jafri, @AmitRoy1198216, @sagorahmed102.
The truth about the video shared as Woman murdered in Bangladesh, Fact Check
As soon as the posts containing the sensitive video and claims came to our notice. Subsequently, we conducted research and analysis of the incident. We found that the video was not from Bangladesh but India’s West Bengal.
To verify the claims made by the users. We performed relevant keyword searches and reverse image searches of some key frames from the viral video using Google Lens. This led us to several media reports regarding the incident. According to reports (1, 2, 3, 4), the video is actually from West Bengal, India, where a woman was recently brutally murdered in the Bakultala police station area of Jayanagar, South 24 Parganas district. The woman was hacked and her head was crushed in the attack. Authorities are working to verify the identity of the victim and are making efforts to identify and arrest the perpetrator.
Therefore, it is evident from verified sources that the video was not from Bangladesh but from India’s West Bengal.
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— D-Intent Data (@dintentdata) January 26, 2025
ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: A sensitive and disturbing video showing a severely injured woman in a nighttime scene on a brick road has been widely shared, with a misleading claim that it is from Bangladesh. In the video, people are seen speaking to the woman, (1/4) pic.twitter.com/YyQnuSq1YO
Intent
Influencers are circulating videos from different locations with misleading claims to set their narrative in Bangladesh.
Conclusion
Claim– The video depicting the injured woman is from religious hate crimes against Hindus in Bangladesh.
Fact– The video was not related to Bangladesh violence, it was from West Bengal, India.
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