Video claiming a water bottle costs 600 taka is old
On July 21, in the afternoon, a Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashed into a building of Milestone School and College in Uttara, Dhaka. Following the incident, a video was shared on Facebook claiming that a man went to buy water, leaving his injured child behind, and the shopkeeper charged him 600 taka for a two-liter bottle of water. However, Dismislab’s verification shows that the video is old and from a different event. According to media reports, this incident happened during the Asian Cup qualifiers match between Bangladesh and Singapore on June 10 this year.
In the Facebook video, a man is seen holding a bottle while speaking to the media. On a microphone showing Channel 24’s logo, the man says, “I’ve been looking for this water for an hour, leaving my child in the field, and one asked me 600 taka for a two-liter bottle of water.” When the journalist holding the microphone asked how this is possible, the man replied, “This is possible in our country. Our country is the land of all possibilities.”
Several users shared the video, claiming it was from the Uttara plane crash. The same video was shared with different captions in many Facebook groups (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), profiles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), and pages (1, 2). Similar claims were also spread through written posts (1, 2, 3, 4). While writing this report, many users are still sharing the video with the same claim (1, 2, 3, 4).
To verify the video, Dismislab traced the Channel 24 logo seen on the microphone to find the original source. Dismislab found the original video on the official YouTube channel of Channel 24. The video was published on June 10. The description of the video said, “2-liter water 600 taka, this is only possible in Bangladesh.” The description also included the hashtags #BangladeshvsSingapore and #AFCAsianCupQualifiers.
So, the original video is more than a month old and from a different event. It is from the day of the Asian Cup qualifiers match between Bangladesh and Singapore held on June 10 last month. Apart from YouTube, Channel 24 also shared an online report and a photo card about the incident on its verified Facebook page.
It is clear that the video has no relation to the recent training jet crash. The original event is more than a month old and related to a football match.
