The clip was shared after at least 108 people were killed after landslides triggered by pounding monsoon rains<\/a> struck tea plantations before dawn in the district of Wayanad, in India’s southern coastal state of Kerala (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n Another 128 people were hospitalised for treatment after being rescued from the mud and debris.<\/p>\n The district is famed for the tea estates that crisscross its hilly countryside and which rely on a large pool of casual labourers for planting and harvest.<\/p>\n The same video was also shared alongside similar claims elsewhere on X here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the footage circulating online is timestamped as being from June 16, and circulated online in news reports at least a month before the disaster in Wayanad.<\/p>\n A reverse image search on Google using keyframes from the falsely shared video led to a longer version of the same footage posted on June 25 by a YouTube channel<\/a> that regularly posts clips of natural disasters and extreme weather (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n The clip is titled:\u00a0“16 June 2024 – Meizhou, Guangdong, China – Timelapse of severe flooding.”<\/p>\n AFP reported<\/a> on June 26 that at least 38 people had died in heavy rains and flooding around the city of Meizhou, citing figures provided by authorities (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n Below is a screenshot comparison of the video used in the false posts (left) and the YouTube video (right):<\/p>\nMeizhou floods<\/h3>\n