Video shared on April 3 falsely linked to April 22 Pahalgam terror attack to malign Kashmiris
A 9-second-long video showing a few young boys crouching in a field while a loud bang goes off resulting in smoke has gone viral on social media. In the clip, after the loud noise is heard, one person collapses to the ground and a few moments later, laughter can be heard.
Referring to the loud noise in the clip as a gunshot, social media users sharing this video have linked it to the April 22 attack in Kashmir, in which 26 civilians were killed by terrorists. They claim that the laughter in the background is proof that when tourists were being shot dead, Kashmiri by-standers cheered on the reprehensible act.
On April 30, X user Janardan Mishra (@janardanmis) posted the viral video, with a caption in Hindi which roughly translates to: “Tourists were being shot dead and local Kashmiri ‘pigs’ stood there laughing… After this video, if any leftist motherf***** trumpets the ideals of Kashmiriyat, please take off your shoes and beat them up.”
At the time this article was written, the post had been shared more than 3,000 times. (Archive)
The same day, X account @ProfSudhaanshu also shared the video with a similar claim. The post has now been taken down but the last time Alt News checked when it was live, it had raked up over 120,000 views. Here’s an archived version of the now-deleted post.
Another X account, @IRinitiPandey, posted the video with a similar claim. (Archive)
The same video was amplified across X by several other users. (Archives: 1, 2, 3)
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The video was also viral on Facebook with similar claims. Screenshots below:
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Fact Check
To verify the truth behind the viral video, we broke it down into several key frames. We then ran a reverse-image search on one of these, which led us to a YouTube video from April 3, 2025, which is 19 days before the Pahalgam terror attack.
This clip in this YouTube short is exactly the same as the video that was recently viral and associated with the Pahalgam terror attack. We also found a Facebook reel uploaded on April 3 that features the same video.
It’s possible that the video was from earlier, but we were unable to find when exactly it happened. We know for sure that the viral clip was available on the internet since April 3, 2025, at least.
We have reached out to the Facebook account that shared this video on April 3 to understand what was happening in the clip. The story will be updated if and when they respond.
To conclude, a video, which has been on the internet since April 3, 2025, was falsely linked to the April 22 Pahalgam attack with hateful remarks against Kashmiris.
(With inputs from Oishani Bhattacharya)
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