The same video was shared with a similar false claim on TikTok here<\/a> and here;<\/a> and Facebook here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The posts circulated online after northern Thailand was severely affected by flash floods as Typhoon Yagi<\/a> barrelled through Southeast Asia in early September and left more than 700 people dead (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n Northern Thailand was badly affected, with one district in Chiang Rai on the Myanmar border reporting its worst floods in 80 years<\/a>\u00a0(archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n However, the video was taken in northern India in July 2024.<\/p>\n A reverse image search on Google using one of the video’s keyframes found an article\u00a0published<\/a> by the Hindi-language newspaper Amar Ujala on July 31, 2024 (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n According to the Hindi-language report, a truck was carried away by a strong current after a downpour in India’s northern city of Haridwar. No one was inside the vehicle when the incident happened, it said.<\/p>\n The article also included the same clip<\/a> shared on the newspaper’s X account (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n In the clip, local bystanders can be seen on the right-hand side of the footage, and one person can be heard saying the name of a Hindu god at the video’s ten-second mark.<\/p>\n Below is a screenshot comparison between the clip in the false post (left) and the clip shared on Amar Ujala’s X account (right):<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\nIndia flood<\/h3>\n