{"id":81029,"date":"2020-11-26T16:57:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T11:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=81029"},"modified":"2020-11-26T17:21:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T11:51:48","slug":"old-video-from-pakistan-shared-as-cyclone-nivar-in-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-from-pakistan-shared-as-cyclone-nivar-in-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video from Karachi viral as fallen billboard injures bikers during Cyclone Nivar in Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a billboard falling on a biker during heavy storms is circulating on social media in the wake of a Cyclone Nivar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">People of Chennai, Kancheepuram, Chengalpet, Thiruvallur, Villupuram, Cuddalore, Puducherry &amp; Mayiladuthurai districts should stay in as far as possible.<\/p>\n<p>When you come out, beware of trees, boards and electric poles around you!<\/p>\n<p>Stay strong!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChennaiRain?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChennaiRain<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nivar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nivar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K7zU3LM7S8\">pic.twitter.com\/K7zU3LM7S8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Raammm (@RamRam1718) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RamRam1718\/status\/1331181231774392321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The clip is circulating as an incident that took place on Chennai&#8217;s Poonamallee High Road (\u0baa\u0bc2\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bae\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bbf \u0ba8\u0bc6\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b9e\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bc8).<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ayyappasamy.god\/videos\/1861053130711544\/\" data-show-text=\"true\" data-width=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/ayyappasamy.god\/videos\/1861053130711544\/\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u0baa\u0bc2\u0ba8\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bae\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2\u0bbf \u0ba8\u0bc6\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0b9e\u0bcd\u0b9a\u0bbe\u0bb2\u0bc8.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a role=\"button\" href=\"#\">Mohan Bolt<\/a> on Tuesday, 24 November 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alt News has also received verification requests on its mobile application.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81046 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-25-at-2.47.38-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-25-at-2.47.38-PM.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-25-at-2.47.38-PM-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-25-at-2.47.38-PM-768x317.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Video from Pakistan<\/h4>\n<p>A reverse-image search of the video&#8217;s keyframes took us to link on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findglocal.com\/PK\/Karachi\/102930411293515\/News-Line\/videos\/301309264412792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">findglocal.com<\/a> which said that the incident took place in Pakistan&#8217;s Karachi. The link was posted on August 7, 2020. According to a report in <a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2258466\/falling-billboard-injures-two-during-heavy-rain-in-karachi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Tribune<\/a>, &#8220;Two motorcyclists were injured when a large billboard came loose and collapsed on them near Metropole Hotel during heavy rainfall on Thursday&#8230;Following the incident, the Karachi commissioner&#8217;s office issued a notification on Friday ordering the immediate removal of billboards and other advertisement material from the city&#8217;s streets in order to avoid loss of human life and damage to property.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81051 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/cbfe5309-b153-4a59-8a76-306ad652fc37.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/cbfe5309-b153-4a59-8a76-306ad652fc37.png 626w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/cbfe5309-b153-4a59-8a76-306ad652fc37-254x300.png 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pakistani news channel CMTV uploaded a video of the incident on August 10, 2020.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Falling Billboards Injuries Two During Heavy Rains In Karachi  !! CMTV\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bz0c_ABM-pc?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>A three-month-old video is therefore circulating on social media as strong winds during Cyclone Nivar in Tamil Nadu blowing away a hoarding thus, injuring motorcyclists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a billboard falling on a biker during heavy storms is circulating on social media in the wake of a Cyclone Nivar. People of Chennai, Kancheepuram, Chengalpet, Thiruvallur, Villupuram, Cuddalore, Puducherry &amp; Mayiladuthurai districts should stay in as far as possible. When you come out, beware of trees, boards and electric poles around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":81052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[133],"class_list":["post-81029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","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\/2020\/11\/Pakistan-karachi-video.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81029","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81054,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81029\/revisions\/81054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81029"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=81029"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=81029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}