Fact Check: Video of suicide in Purnia, Bihar is going viral by linking it to the killing of Hindus in Bangladesh.

New Delhi: A video is becoming increasingly viral on social media. The bodies of three children and a woman are visible in this disturbing video. Users on social media are linking this video to Bangladesh and claiming that violence against Hindus is taking place in Bangladesh. But after fact checking, this video and communal claim turned out to be false. The viral video is not from Bangladesh but from Purnia in Bihar.

Note: The viral video is disturbing, so we are not using it in the story.

what is being claimed

While sharing the video on social media platform In Giripur, Mymensingh, radical Islamists of the local Jamaat attacked Hindu houses, raped and brutalized them. A mother and her three small children died on the spot in the attack. (post’s archive link,

This video is also viral on social media platform Facebook with the same claim. (post’s archive link,

Right-wing X handle Megh Updates, which has faced criticism for spreading misinformation several times, also shared this video. However, later after being told by the users that this incident happened from India, they deleted it.

investigation of viral video

To investigate the viral video, when different keyframes of the video were searched on Google reverse image, a video dated November 8, 2024 was found. facebook post Found, the caption of which read ‘This accident is from Kilpara village, Pyaji Panchayat, District Purnia.’

Apart from this, local YouTube channels of Bihar bc24 news But scenes from the viral video were also found in a video report. According to this report, the incident took place in Kilpara village of Rauta police station area. The deceased minors in the video have been identified as the children of Babita Devi, the woman who committed suicide. The report further stated that the incident occurred when the children’s father Ravi Sharma was not at home. In an interview given to the channel, Sharma told that he/she had gone out for a temple meeting. When the room was opened after returning around 10 pm, all four bodies were hanging from the ceiling.

When BC 24 News reporter Bal Kishore spoke to, he/she confirmed the incident, saying, ‘After the video of the dead bodies went viral, we went to the village, we were able to confirm that the incident took place in Kilpara area of ​​Purnia.’

News website on this incident Dainik Bhaskar, Awakening, presswire18 Times News were also published. According to the report of presswire18 Times, the woman first hanged her three children, after which she committed suicide by hanging herself. All four bodies were found hanging in the room of the house.

presswire18 Times quoted Gyan Ranjan, House Officer of Rauta Police Station, as saying that the woman was undergoing treatment as she was mentally unstable.

What is the truth of the video?

From our investigation it is clear that the viral video is not from Bangladesh but from Purnia in Bihar. Which is being viral on social media with false claims.

(This story was originally published boom liveAnd republished by NBT as part of Shakti Collective.)