This Facebook post with a video supposedly showing a cloudburst in Pakistan in 2025 is PARTLY FALSE.
The post reads, “Dangerous Cloudburst in Pakistan.”
On 15 August 2025, the media reported that a strong cloudburst in northwest Pakistan had caused flash floods, killing at least 157 people.
However, a reverse image search of a screenshot from the claim video established that the footage has been online since 2021.
The video was published on the Sankei News YouTube channel on 3 July 2021 with the Japanese headline, “A large-scale debris flow occurred in Izuyama, Atami City.” Atami City is in Japan.
The video was also published on this website on 5 July 2021.
PesaCheck has examined a Facebook post with a video supposedly of a cloudburst in Pakistan in 2025 and finds it to be PARTLY FALSE.
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This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.
By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.
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This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Bekalu Kibro and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Mary Mutisya. The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck chief copy editor, Stephen Ndegwa.
PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org.
