Or, to be more specific, from a YouTube video posted in January by a channel called Compared Comparison.
Unless, of course, the footage wasn't actually 'footage'.Īpparently, according to Indian fact-checking initiative Boom (thanks!), the clip of the bombing is about as legitimate as a Monopoly title deed - what people saw on their social media feeds was actually gameplay footage taken from Bohemia Interactive's shooter title Arma 3. Naturally, this unexpectedly violent development alarmed many people given how unstable the region has been these past few weeks, and there's no reason why it shouldn't. Some Indian news channels allegedly used Arma 3 footage to claim Pakistan bombed AfghanistanĮarlier this week, a short clip that allegedly showed Pakistani forces executing a bombing run over Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley made its way onto a number of Indian news channels, including Republic TV, Zee Hindustan and TV9 Bharatvarsh, among several others.