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Old video from Syria pitched as Indian chopper crash

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Chennai

A social media claim has surfaced that an Indian Air Force helicopter Rudra was shot down by Nepal and a pilot was captured. This has been promoted using a video, without any audio, that shows a helicopter shot down mid-air. With help of a reverse image search, Alt News found that the footage was pertaining to that of a Syrian Air Force helicopter that had been shot down in a key Syrian town way back in 2012.

First published on www.altnews.in

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