The helicopter, carrying pilgrims, crashed right after the takeoff from the Kedarnath shrine near Garud Chatti in Rudraprayag in which all seven people, including a pilot, boarded on the helicopter were killed.
Meanwhile many Congress and BJP leaders tweeted on this heartbreaking incident from their official twitter handles with different captions to pay tribute to the deceased and their families with the picture of a helicopter claiming it to be of kedarnath.
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Fact Check:
To check the viral claim DFRAC team reverse searched image and found the real image of the helicopter on Getty images with the caption stating, “Ground view looking up at a helicopter exploding midair stock photo.” Also, the year in which the picture was uploaded was from the year 2015.
Conclusion:
The image of helicopter explode shared by BJP and congress leaders is actually from the year 2015 and is shared misleadingly.
