Fact Check: Incident of Women trying to jump on a Railway Track is not from India

News Claim: A video is being shared on Social media showing a woman trying to jump in front of a Railway track, the message says, Due to unemployment, youth do all this under mental stress.

Viral message on WhatsApp today, Social Media claims:

Due to unemployment, youth do all this under mental stress.

News Verification: The video shared on Social media thinking to be from India is not true. The video is circulated since 2017 and it is from China. We found a video of this from a Chines YouTube link, it says, “Railway Worker Saves Suicidal Woman just as Train Approaches”. The video is from May 2017.

Shanghaiist published this story as a female college student who tried to commit suicide by throwing herself in front of a train. Luckily, she was stopped at the last possible moment by one worker with lightning fast reflexes.

The link can be seen on the Facebook page

News verdict: False

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Ashwin Roy is an Indian fact-checker and news writer, writing news for Ayupp since 2014.

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