This Video is Not in Lebanon
The Claim
Video: Explosions that devastated Lebanon's capital Beirut on August 4, 2020.
Emerging story
A 30-second video clip that shows clouds of dark smoke billowing from a large fire on the side of a road where vehicles are parked is doing rounds on social media. Users claim that the video is showing the explosions that took place in Beirut. A video was viewed more than 6,000 times on Facebook. The claim was circulating across the MENA region.
Misbar’s Analysis
The video in the circulating claim doesn't show the two explosions that devastated Beirut. Misbar's reverse image search found that the video circulating was shot along Ismailia Road in a suburb of Cairo on July 14, 2020, when a fire broke out due to a leaking crude oil pipeline.
According to ABC News, 17 people were injured after a ruptured crude oil pipeline ignited a massive fire on a desert highway in Egypt.
