Fact check: A Misleading Video of an Army Vehicle that Overturned in Flood Waters.

By Emmanuel Bida Thomas

A video of an army vehicle being carried away by flood waters going viral on Messenger, WhatsApp, and elsewhere on social media is lodging a claim that the incident happened in Luri area of Juba County in Central Equatoria State last week.

“This happened in Luri last week,” reads a comment on the video.

The video of what appears to be a military vehicle crossing a stream of fast running water did not originate in South Sudan. While it is true that four soldiers were killed and sixteen others injured while attempting to cross the Luri River on 25th September 2021, the video circulating is not of that incident.

Find out why:

A reverse image search of the fragmented key frames of the video, returned several posts on Facebook and TikTok where the video was used. The earliest being April 29, 2020. It was reused in early August this year as seen in this link. The incident is thought to have happened in N’Djamena, Chad with the vehicle belonging to the Chadian army.

Using visual clues, we are able to tell that the branding of the vehicle in the video is not being used by organised forces in South Sudan.

The environment surrounding the stream doesn’t also look like that of Luri in Juba.

Conclusion:

211 Check, therefore, concludes that the video circulating is misleading and is not of an incident that happened in Juba, South Sudan.

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