{"id":47544,"date":"2019-09-30T18:10:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=47544"},"modified":"2019-09-30T18:10:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:40:39","slug":"video-of-crocodile-rescued-from-streets-of-vadodara-gujarat-shared-as-patna-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-of-crocodile-rescued-from-streets-of-vadodara-gujarat-shared-as-patna-bihar\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of crocodile rescued from streets of Vadodara, Gujarat shared as Patna, Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"

A video showing a crocodile in a water-logged residential area being pulled out by a man is doing the rounds on social media with the claim that the incident took place in Patna, Bihar.“Crocodile In Patna during Heavy rain”, <\/em>reads the text posted along with a post<\/a> which has amassed nearly 12,000 views so far. Bihar is battling floods yet again with the death of at least 29 citizens reported<\/a> in the last 48 hours.<\/p>\n

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Crocodile In Patna during Heavy rain .<\/a><\/p>\n

Crocodile In Patna.<\/p>\n

Posted by Shiksha Point<\/a> on Sunday, 29 September 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Many people have shared the video with the identical narrative on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On the other hand, Facebook page Jaago Bihar Jaago<\/em><\/a> claimed that the video was from Bihar’s Jehahanbad district. The caption posted by the page reads, “\u091c\u0939\u093e\u0928\u093e\u092c\u093e\u0926 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0930\u094b\u0921 \u092a\u0947 \u092c\u093e\u095d \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0906\u092f\u093e \u092e\u0917\u0930\u092e\u091a\u094d\u091b, \u092c\u091a \u0915\u0947 \u091a\u0932\u0928\u093e \u0930\u0947 \u092c\u093e\u092c\u093e .”\u00a0<\/em>Alt News has also received a verification request on its official mobile application where the user is enquiring if the video is from Kankarbagh.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h2>\n

Listening to the people conversing in the video, Alt News found that the crowd was speaking in Gujarati. We subsequently performed a Google search with relevant keywords and found the video posted by Times of India<\/em><\/a> on August 4, 2019. The broadcast carried visuals of the rescue operation from a different angle.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=36nFL6VGeGI&t=4s<\/a><\/p>\n

A ten-foot-long crocodile was rescued by forest officials from a society in Vadsar, Vadodara, Gujarat. “Due to waterlogging by the ongoing heavy rains, further incidents of crocodiles entering Vadodara\u2019s housing complexes have been recorded. Following last week\u2019s viral video of a crocodile attacking a dog inside Lalbaug\u2019s Rajsthamb society, a team of rescuers captured another reptile at night from the entrance of a house.”,\u00a0<\/em>reads the caption posted along with the video TOI’s<\/em> YouTube video.<\/p>\n

A two-month-old video of a crocodile rescued in Vadodara, Gujarat is circulated with the false claim that a crocodile was spotted a locality in Patna, Bihar. Earlier, Alt News had debunked a video of a crocodile rescued<\/a> in Ratnagiri as Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A video showing a crocodile in a water-logged residential area being pulled out by a man is doing the rounds on social media with the claim that the incident took place in Patna, Bihar.“Crocodile In Patna during Heavy rain”, reads the text posted along with a post which has amassed nearly 12,000 views so far. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":47565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-47544","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\/09\/Crocodile-Vadsar.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47544","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47544"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47576,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47544\/revisions\/47576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47544"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=47544"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=47544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}