Fact Check: These pictures of bridge collapse in Bihar are not from today, the posts being shared on social media are fake

New Delhi: Some users on social media platform Facebook shared some pictures of the broken bridge on November 22. Along with one of these pictures, it was claimed that a part of the bridge being built at a cost of Rs 1200 crore in Supaul, Bihar has collapsed. At the same time, in another post, the user wrote that the bridge being built at a cost of Rs 14 crore in Begusarai collapsed even before its inauguration. These pictures were shared as a recent incident. PTI Fact Check Desk investigated and found the viral social media post to be misleading. Investigation revealed that users are spreading confusion on social media by calling old incidents of bridge collapse in Bihar as recent ones.

What is the full claim, read
Facebook page ‘Social India’ shared a picture of the bridge collapse on November 22 and wrote, ‘A part of the country’s largest bridge being built in Supaul, Bihar has collapsed, the bridge was being built at a cost of Rs 1200 crore!’ of post Link,archive link See more screenshots here.

On the same page, another post related to the bridge collapse in Bihar was shared on 22 November. It is written in the caption of the post that in Bihar, first a pillar sank, then the bridge started leaning. A bridge worth Rs 1700 crore got submerged in the river in 10 minutes, what is happening in Bihar! See the link of the post, archive link and screenshot here.

While sharing another picture of the bridge collapse on November 22 on Facebook, the user wrote that the bridge had collapsed before its inauguration in Begusarai, Bihar. The bridge was built at a cost of Rs 14 crore, what do you think! of post Link,archive link See more screenshots here.

The investigation revealed the truth
To confirm the claim, the desk reverse searched all three photographs one by one and found that these incidents of bridge collapse were not recent but quite old.

first picture :
On November 22, a post was shared on Facebook claiming that a part of the bridge being built at a cost of Rs 1200 crore in Supaul, Bihar has collapsed. When the desk searched on Google with the help of related keywords, it was found that this incident happened in March 2024.

According to the report published on March 22, 2024 on the website of ETV Bharat, a laborer had died after the girder of three pillars of the country’s largest Bakour bridge being built in Supaul, Bihar, fell. It was told in the report that work was going on on this project under Bharat Mala Project on Kosi River, when suddenly 3 segments between pillar number 153 and 154 broke from the crane and fell down. The cost of construction of this bridge was around Rs 1200 crore. full report click here Try it.

The picture used in the report exactly matches the viral picture. It is clear that the matter is not of the present but of March 2024. Users are spreading confusion by sharing old news on social media. See the screenshot of the comparison of both the images here.

Second picture:
On November 22, a Facebook user claimed with this picture that a bridge being built in Bihar at a cost of Rs 1700 crore has collapsed. When the desk reverse searched the picture with the help of Google, it was found that this incident happened in June 2023.

According to the report published on Aaj Tak’s website on June 4, 2023, the bridge being built at a cost of more than Rs 1700 crore between Khagaria-Aguwani-Sultanganj in Bihar had collapsed. On February 23, 2014, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had laid the foundation stone of the four-lane bridge being built at a cost of Rs 1710 crore on the Aguani Ghat Ganga river in Sultanganj, Bhagalpur. The length of the bridge was 3.160 kilometers and its construction was 80 percent completed. Pillar numbers 10, 11 and 12 of the bridge had collapsed during the incident. full report click here Read it after doing it.

Third picture:
To find out the truth behind the post going viral with the claim that the bridge built at a cost of Rs 14 crore in Begusarai has collapsed even before its inauguration, the desk reverse searched the picture. It was revealed that this incident happened in December 2022.

According to the report published on Aaj Tak’s website on December 19, 2022, the bridge built at a cost of about Rs 14 crore on the Gandak River in Begusarai, Bihar, broke and fell into the Gandak River even before its inauguration. However, this incident is about two years old and users are making misleading claims by saying it is recent. Read the full report here.

According to the report published on Dainik Bhaskar website on August 17, 2024, 21 bridges have collapsed in Bihar in the last 2 years. These also include more than 15 small and old bridges. full report Here Click to read.

It is clear from our investigation so far that confusion is being spread on social media by sharing old incidents related to bridge collapse in different areas of Bihar. Our investigation found the viral post to be misleading.

conclusion
Confusion is being spread on social media by sharing old incidents related to bridge collapse in different areas of Bihar. PTI Fact Check During investigation, the viral post turned out to be misleading.