As relations between New Delhi and Dhaka remain strained following the ouster of Bangladesh's autocratic former leader Sheikh Hasina, social media users in the Muslim-majority nation have shared a video they falsely claim shows a mosque set on fire in neighbouring India. The clip depicts a burning compound in Indonesia.

"Fire is raging at mosques across India. Oh Allah please save the world's Muslims," the Facebook post's Bengali-language caption reads.

It shares an 18-second video showing a building on fire, and has been viewed thousands of times since it was uploaded on December 22, 2024.

The post surfaced after Hindu activists attempted to storm a Bangladeshi consulate during a protest in Agartala, a small Indian city not far from the two countries' shared border (archived link).

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Relations between the two countries have been frayed by the student-led uprising in August that toppled Bangladesh's autocratic former leader Sheikh Hasina, who is now residing in India.

Public sentiment in the Muslim-majority nation of 170 million continues to be stacked against their Hindu-majority neighbour, which was Hasina's main international patron during her iron-fisted, 15-year rule.

The video was shared elsewhere on Facebook along with the false claim.

But the building in the video is in fact a mosque in Indonesia and there have been no official reports of mosques burned in India.

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