{"id":28720,"date":"2019-02-21T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T09:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=28720"},"modified":"2019-02-21T14:40:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T09:10:02","slug":"mock-drill-at-delhis-dilshad-garden-metro-station-viral-as-bomb-found-by-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mock-drill-at-delhis-dilshad-garden-metro-station-viral-as-bomb-found-by-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock drill at Delhi&#8217;s Dilshad Garden metro station viral as &#8220;bomb found&#8221; by the police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Dilshad garden metro station bomb found&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>is the message accompanying a viral video on social media. The 31-second clip shows police gathered outside Delhi&#8217;s Dilshad garden metro station. The person shooting the video gives audio commentary that cops found a bomb at the station and people are advised to not touch anything.\u00a0<em>&#8220;Inform the police if you find something lying around,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>he furthers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Rajsarsuppoter\/videos\/248377216115802\/\" data-width=\"350\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Rajsarsuppoter\/videos\/248377216115802\/\"><p>Dilshad garden metro station bomb found.. Request to all please be careful and safe time ..<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Rajsarsuppoter\/\">Rajsar Foundation Since 2017<\/a> on Wednesday, 20 February 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video is widely shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/videos\/?q=Bomb%20Dilshad%20garden%20metro&amp;epa=SERP_TAB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=dilshad%20garden%20metro%20bomb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zKzlYua1IfM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, suggesting its possible circulation on WhatsApp as well.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"False claim viral: Bomb found at Delhi&#039;s Dilshad garden metro station\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/318695565?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1290\" height=\"687\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Mock drill<\/h2>\n<p>The 31-second clip has been posted with a false narrative. There are no media reports which substantiate the claim that a bomb was discovered at Dilshad garden metro station. It is unlikely that a piece of news this serious goes unreported in the media.<\/p>\n<p>There are other hints which suggest that the viral claims are untrue. If one carefully watches the video, the police are not evacuating citizens from the station. Commuters and passers-by are freely walking to and from the station.<\/p>\n<p>Several individual users have commented that it represents a mock drill. Alt News also found YouTube videos of the incident shot from a different angle that describe the incident as,\u00a0<em>&#8220;Dilshad Garden metro station McDonald&#8217;s bomb mock drill.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dilshad Garden Metro Station McDonald bomb mock drill\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BYaX8t-CrA0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We contacted Dilshad Garden police station for confirmation and this article will be updated if and when the police respond.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t an isolated case of a police mock drill video shared on social media as &#8220;bomb found&#8221; or &#8220;terror attack&#8221;. Earlier this month, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/mock-drill-at-dmart-hypermarket-in-mumbai-viral-as-terrorists-caught-by-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">counterterrorism mock drill conducted in Mumbai&#8217;s DMart hypermarket<\/a> was shared as &#8220;terrorists caught by police.&#8221; Last month, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/telangana-police-mock-drill-video-viral-as-terror-attack-in-tirupathi-tirumala-bypass-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telangana police mock drill video<\/a>\u00a0was viral as a terror attack in Tirupathi Tirumala bypass road. At a time when citizens are at unease in the aftermath of Pulwama terror attack, posting a mock drill video with the false narrative of a bomb found by the police might cause unnecessary panic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dilshad garden metro station bomb found&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0is the message accompanying a viral video on social media. The 31-second clip shows police gathered outside Delhi&#8217;s Dilshad garden metro station. The person shooting the video gives audio commentary that cops found a bomb at the station and people are advised to not touch anything.\u00a0&#8220;Inform the police if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":28735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-28720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/02\/metro-bomb.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28736,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28720\/revisions\/28736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28720"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=28720"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}