A video showing a strong flow of water cascading down near a train track, has gone viral on social media, with users claiming that it shows a cloudburst which led to the recent heavy downpour in Kolkata , West Bengal .

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here .)

Is the claim true?: No, the claim is false.

As per reports, the video shows a pipe burst incident from 20 September in Guwahati’s Chandmari area.

What we found: At first, we divided the video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

It led us to a post on X by Hindusthan Samachar News Agency which featured the same clip as the viral video, dated 20 September.

The post’s caption stated that water gushed over 20 feet high following an explosion in a drinking

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