Fact-Check: Video of heavily loaded trains is from Bangladesh, not from India.

Megha Bajaj February 23, 2025

Video of heavily loaded trains is from Bangladesh, not from India

A video showing two heavily loaded trains with passengers on the roof of one train is making rounds on the social media platform X(formerly Twitter) claiming that this video is from India. The video has been ridiculed by users who are sharing it and asserting that this could only happen in India.

An account named No Context Humans posted this video and wrote: “India is not for beginners”

Screenshot of a tweet from 'NO CONTEXT HUMANS' (@HumansNoContext) with the caption 'India is not for beginners.' The attached video shows a railway station crowded with thousands of people, with heavily loaded trains and passengers sitting on rooftops. The scene is chaotic, with people standing on tracks and climbing onto train carriages. However, the video is misleadingly claimed to be from India when it actually originates from Bangladesh, depicting a common scene during major religious gatherings or festivals — Link

Fact-Check

To investigate the authenticity of the viral video, we reverse-searched some keyframes generated from the viral video that led us to a video showing similar visuals on YouTube with the caption: “Why People Risk Their Lives Traveling on Heavily Loaded Train in Bangladesh”. The video was uploaded on Sep 3, 2024.