Fact Check: Chickens died but there is no evidence of fire, social media claims are misleading

New Delhi: A video is going viral on social media in which some birds are dead. If someone is pressing the stomach of the chicken, fire is coming out of the chicken’s mouth. Whenever the stomach is being pressed, the chicken’s mouth releases fire.

What is the claim?

This video is being shared on various social media platforms with the claim that a dead chicken is spewing fire. X user Sheetal Yadav has claimed that there is panic in Sakleshpur as all the chickens of the village have died mysteriously.

YouTube channel Wild life 1635 has written in the caption of the video that the chickens died after eating Diwali bombs.

A Facebook post said, ‘Miscreants poisoned chickens in Hanabalu Hadige village of Sakleshpur. The villagers were surprised when fire started coming out of the mouth of the dead chickens like a dragon.

What is the truth?

Sakleshpur is a taluka of Hassan district of Karnataka. We talked to the Inspector Sadashiv here. Asked him/her whether the claim of mysterious death of chickens in Sakleshpur and fire coming out of the mouth of the dead chicken is true? They told us that a person named Ravi has made such a claim, but he/she has not complained to the police. However, after seeing the shocking claim on social media, we sent our team to the spot, but Ravi had buried his/her chickens by then.

When we wanted to know whether any villager had seen fire coming out of the cock’s mouth, SI Sadashiv said that no one had said so. he/she said that four-five days have passed since the incident, but Ravi has not yet complained to the police. However, we had also talked to the veterinarians that if there was a complaint, the chickens would be examined.

When we asked him/her if the claim of the chicken dying mysteriously and fire coming out of its mouth after death is not true, he/she said that there is no proof of this. In our investigation, the news of death of chicken in Sakleshpur, Karnataka was found to be true, but the claim of fire coming out of the mouth of dead chickens was not confirmed. Therefore the claims being made on social media are misleading.