Amid the ongoing violence in Bangladesh, images of military vehicles are circulated with a claim that the Indian Army was entering the country to help former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina suppress the demonstrations.
(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)
Is this true?: No, the claim is false.
We traced the the video of the truck back to 2022 hence, it predates the present situation.
The image of the lake with the military vehicles is from Tejgaon Airport (Old Airport), Agargaon, Dhaka.
The Ministries of External Affairs or Defence has not released any information or statement about the Indian Army moving into Bangladesh to quell protests.
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What we found: We checked both the visuals separately and below are the findings.
IMAGE: We ram a Google reverse image search on the photo and were led to a post by X user Fiola Lali, national coordinator of the Revolutionary Communist Party from the United Kingdom.
She posted the same visual with the caption, “Several tanks and APCs (Armored personnel carriers) from Dhaka Cantonment were seen moving through city streets this afternoon” on 18 July.
The search results also showed reports by The Telegraph and Kashmir Reader and a Facebook page Bigyanpriyo.
The Telegraph and Kashmir Reader noted Bangladesh took out tanks in Dhaka streets as over 900 students return to India.
The Facebook page captioned the...
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