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False: Video shows passengers standing outside a bus in India, because the driver is offering namaz. Suresh Chavhanke, the editor-in-chief and founder of right-wing news outlet Sudarshan News, posted a video on Twitter, where a person is seen offering namaz inside a bus, while passengers are seen queuing up outside. Chavhanke purportedly shared this as a footage from India, and  (Source: BOOM Live)

False: This video shows leopard caught inside a factory in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad. (Archives of similar claims can be seen here and here. We also received this query on our WhatsApp tipline in other Indian languages.)What is the truth?: We found out that this video dates back to December 2022 and shows the wild animal inside Hetero Pharmaceuticals Limited facil (Source: WebQoof - The Quint)

Mixture: Fabio, the model, was hit in the face by a goose while riding a roller coaster in 1999, leaving his nose bloodied. About this rating Media reports and park officials in 1999 characterized the incident as a goose colliding with Fabio’s face, but according to Fabio, the goose collided with a camera on the roller coaster ride, which shattered and a piece of it cut his face. Fabio claims that vid (Source: Snopes)