Viral video of highway blockade predates Student's League strike
A video claiming that the Padma Bridge has been blocked has circulated on X. Users assumed it depicted scenes from the November 10 strike called by the banned organization Student’s League. However, an investigation by Dismislab revealed that the video is old. The same video was found on social media as far back as October 3.
An X account named “Toofani BD” posted an eight-second video. The caption accompanying the video read, “Police have fled, and Padma Bridge has been blocked. People across Bangladesh are rising. Protests on multiple fronts are bringing Bangladesh to a boiling point.”
The video shows a large crowd carrying sticks and chanting slogans on a highway. By the time of this report’s publication, the video had been viewed nearly 24,000 times.
Several keyframes were collected from the video and subjected to a reverse image search. This led to a video published on October 24 from an Instagram account. The description of that post stated, “Today, dated 24 10 2026, a logi-boitha (logi-boitha: boat oars and poles used as weapons) procession was held after Kanchan Bridge on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway under the leadership of Rupganj Upazila Student’s League of Narayanganj District.”
The same video was also seen posted from a Facebook profile named Mujib Sainik. The post, published on October 3, read, “Awami League’s action has begun.”
However, whether the claims of these two videos are correct, when the original video was filmed, or which event the video originally depicts could not be confirmed through any reliable source.
That is, the video circulating in the context of the November 10 strike program called by the banned organization Student’s League in Dhaka is old. The video was also found on social media on October 3.
Incidentally, political tension, blockades, and violent incidents have occurred in various parts of the country surrounding the nationwide strike called by Bangladesh Student’s League on November 10. Dismislab has published multiple fact-check reports regarding fake claims spread about this strike.
