Images of a bridge in China incorrectly shared as a railway bridge in Indian-administered Kashmir

The clip was shared elsewhere with similar claims X And Facebook.

FFive years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government stripped Kashmir of its special semi-autonomous status, the northern Indian region voted in its first local elections in a decade between September 18 and October 1 (archived link).

The Modi-led central government and its supporters have claimed that the government has made significant progress during this period developed infrastructuree in the restive Himalayan region (archived link).

The recently completed Chenab Railway Bridge – which connects two mountains with an arch rising 359 meters above the cool waters of the Chenab River – is seen as a “facilitate movement” of ordinary people and goods from the rest of India to the restive Kashmir Valley (archived link).

But the video shows a railway bridge in China.

Bridge in China

A reverse image search of keyframes on Google found a similar video published on the Chinese media’s official Facebook page Shanghai daily on February 17, 2021 (archived link).

“The Beipanjiang Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is built 565 meters (1,850 feet) above the Beipan River Canyon between Guizhou Province and Yunnan Province,” the post’s caption read.

It has opened for traffic in China in 2016, connecting two provinces in the mountainous southwest and cutting travel times by as much as three-quarters, local authorities said (archived link).

Below is a screenshot comparison between the clip shared in Fake Posts (left) and the video in Shanghai Daily’s Facebook post (right):

There was also an AFP photo of the Beipanjiang Bridge published by the Toronto Star here (archived link).

The design and color of the Chenab Railway Bridge also look different from the Beipanjiang Bridge, as shown in the photo below from AFP:

AFP previously fact-checked disinformation about the Chenab railway bridge here.