Claim: A viral clip claims that an overcrowded multi-deck river boat sinks in the water, leading to the loss of several lives.
Conclusion: Totally False. No such boat exists and the clip shown is generated by AI.
Rating : Totally False — 
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A viral clip shared across social media platforms particularly Facebook showcases a multi-deck boat sinking in the river. The boat is seen to have lost complete balance and nearly submerged into the water before the clip ends.
Facebook user ‘FlopNLazy’ shared this clip with the title : “Overcrowded Multi-Decker River Boat Almost Sinks!” This reel gained around 20,000 likes and nearly a thousand shares as of September 2, 2025.
View the clip below:
FACT CHECK
DigitEYE India decided to investigate this claim and discovered that the clip is not real. The reel has been generated by AI, as confirmed from the behaviour of it and the results of an AI checker.
Firstly, as the boat leans over 45 degrees, passengers on the deck neither fall nor appear to be worried. In physics, such a severe tilt on an overcrowded vessel would likely cause immediate capsizing, mass panic, or people falling overboard.
After conducting a reverse image search of the keyframes from the reel, we were directed to other fake videos. These can be viewed here, here and here, uploaded by random channels without any context or credible evidence. View a screenshot of one clip below –
The whole structure of the boat itself is impractical with people sitting on the edges and hanging from the balconies. All of these fake videos are accompanied with a similar background sound of a person screaming.
When we searched for reports on this with the phrase “overcrowded multi-decker river boat almost sinks,” there were no results. No news reports align with the reel’s implied event. If real, there would be a media coverage, eyewitness accounts or viral shares from credible sources, which are absent in this event.
We also ran the image through an AI detection tool and the results confirmed that this was AI generated.
View the results below –
Thus, the evidence strongly indicates the video is AI-generated and no such event actually happended.
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