Old bus‑fire videos resurface online with new false claim
A video circulating on Facebook claims that miscreants set fire to a bus early in the morning at Simakhali Bazar in Jashore district. But a Dismislab fact‑check found the claim to be false. The viral clip was created by editing together fragments from multiple older videos of unrelated arson incidents.
A Facebook page called Nucleus 71 posted a 22‑second video with the caption: “In the early morning, miscreants set fire to a bus and vandalized vehicles in Simakhali Bazar, Jashore. The entire area is in tension.” The video includes on‑screen text reading “Simakhali, Jashore – February 11, 2026,” and shows a burning bus with the word “Labaid” visible in the background. Several other profiles, pages and groups (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) posted the same claim.
A reverse image search of keyframes led Dismislab to a Channel One News video published on YouTube on November 10 last year titled: “Bus set on fire in front of Labaid Hospital in Dhanmondi.” The viral clip matches multiple portions of this 2‑minute‑28‑second video. The Labaid signboard seen behind the burning bus also appears identically in the original footage.
Further searches found multiple media reports (1, 2, 3). A Prothom Alo report from November 10, 2025, titled “Cocktail explosion in Mirpur, bus set on fire in Dhanmondi,” stated that a bus belonging to Shanto‑Mariam University was torched around 7:30 p.m. near Labaid Hospital. Fire service officials confirmed responding to the incident.
Another part of the viral video, showing a burning bus with the word “Raida” on the back, also comes from an older source. A reverse image search linked it to a November 11, 2025, video on Ekattor TV’s YouTube channel titled “Bus set on fire in front of Ibn Sina Hospital in Jatrabari at midnight.” A segment from 30 to 40 seconds matches the viral footage exactly.
Multiple reports (1, 2, 3) published at the time, including one report from Jamuna TV titled “Buses set on fire in the capital at midnight,” describe miscreants torching three buses in Dhaka on November 10 – two of “Raida Paribahan” and one of “Rajdhani Paribahan.” The buses shown in these reports match those seen in the viral clip.
In short, the video shared with the claim of a recent arson attack in Jashore is not new. It is a compilation of old footage from separate bus‑fire incidents in Dhaka in November 2025.
Disclaimer: The original version of this fact-check report was published in Bengali on Dismislab’s Bengali website on February 11, 2026. The English translation was completed later; however, to maintain time accuracy and avoid any potential misinterpretation, the English version has been published with the original publication date.
