The ‘Mumbai bullet train’ video was filmed in Taiwan
This video was filmed in Taiwan. Two fact-checkers traced it to footage of a train arriving at Kaohsiung Port. Posts sharing it as a delivery to Mumbai gave the wrong location.
The viral claim
This clip shows bullet-train coaches delivered to Mumbai from Japan.
How we reached the verdict
The longer Taiwanese broadcast and local coverage identify the train arriving at Kaohsiung Port. Matching the vehicle and transport footage to that coverage answers the claim about where this particular clip was filmed. It says nothing about the timing of future deliveries to India.
Sources
- India Today Fact Check · Reporting
- Lighthouse Journalism · Reporting
- FakeOut · Discovery