A video is making rounds on social media platforms showing a crowd of people witnessing a massive fire at a railway station. Users on social media platforms are fervently sharing this video and claiming that a massive fire erupted at Mumbai’s Mira Road Railway Station.

Sharing this video on X(Twitter), a user named StrokeOGenius wrote: ”Current Situation of Mira Road Railway Station..”

Furthermore, we found that the video was shared by many users on X(Twitter) as well as Facebook with similar claims.

Fact-Check

To determine the reality of the above viral video, the DFRAC team converted the video into some keyframes and reverse-searched it on Google.

Video on YouTube

We found a similar video on the YouTube channel of “Sangbad Pratidin” a Bengali newspaper media outlet, with the caption: “Massive fire breaks out in Santoshpur station”. Moreover, the video was posted on April 6, 2023.

What we found in media reports

According to a media report published by the Print on April 6, 2023,  a massive fire broke out at Santoshpur railway station in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Thursday evening forcing the railway authorities to temporarily suspend train services on Eastern Railway’s Budge Budge-Sealdah section, a senior official said. The fire broke out at the railway station around 5.30 pm when it was crowded with passengers waiting for trains, he said, adding that no casualty was reported.

Apart from The Print, Media reports from India Today and the Deccan Herald also reported similar facts in the context of the above viral video.

Conclusion

It is clear from DFRAC’s Fact-Check that the viral video claiming a massive fire erupted at Mira Road railway station is misleading since the video shows an incident of fire erupting at Santoshpur railway station in West Bengal.

Hence, the claim of social media users is false.