Debunked: The Truth Behind the Viral Video of a Collapsing Bridge in Nassarawa and Bihar

By: Muhammed Abdulraheem

A trending video of a collapsing bridge is circulating widely on social media in India and Nigeria, claiming that the incident occurred in Nassarawa and Bihar, respectively.

Claim:

In a 5-second viral video of a bridge collapsing, with many attributing the incident to Nassarawa State in Nigeria through their social media handle, while some in India are attributing this incident to Bihar, a state in India. The video showed an overhead bridge collapsing over passing vehicles, and passersby fled to safety.

Verdict: False!

Full text:

The viral video shows vehicles passing beneath the dilapidated overhead bridge and pedestrians running to safety after the collapse of the bridge. Many Nigerians and Indians took to social media to identify the same video as occurring in their country, with Nassarawa and Bihar specified as the place of occurrence in both countries.

The source of the video is not identified, but many citizens of both countries kept reposting the viral video.

The video went viral on 23 July 2025 in Nigeria, with Goodluck Pyagbara, a Facebook digital creator with 7.5k followers, with the caption “how APC 10billion bridge collapsed.” His video generated 13 reactions with 25 comments. 

John Duah Agyeman, a Facebook critic and political thinker with 5.7k followers, posted with a caption that the incident occurred in Adamawa after 3 weeks of construction, with zero engagement. Olayinka Olasupo, a Facebook content creator with 4.8k followers, attributed the collapse to Lafia, Nassarawa state. Meanwhile, he turned the video into different pictures of the incident and made a video with it, blaming the Nigerian government for the incident and mismanagement. He made a picture into a 15-part series of videos, with the whole series receiving only 1 reaction and no comments.

Abass Tom, with 8k followers, posted screenshots of the video and claimed that the bridge is in Lafia, Nassarawa state. The Facebook user claimed that the bridge collapsed “three weeks after commissioning and that “10billion” was spent to construct the bridge.

“Breaking News JUST IN Flyover collapse after 3 weeks of commissioning in Lafia, Nassarawa State. 10 billion was spent on this project,” the Facebook user wrote.

Some hours later, the Facebook user edited the caption and claimed that the incident happened in Bihar, India. “Flyover collapsed after 3 weeks of commissioning in the Khagaria-Aguwani bridge in Bihar. Visuals show a part of the bridge breakdown (Source: India Today). 10 billion was spent on this project,” the user wrote.

A Facebook account, Dee Elegantz, with over 11,000 followers, also shared screenshots of the video while attributing the incident to Lafia, Nasarawa.

Meanwhile, the video received many narratives on X too. @cityboyABJ also captioned the picture of the video with “Lafiya Nassarwa state, flyover collapses 3 weeks after commissioning.

The governor should resign or be impeached.” Also, @uceey97 with the same picture of the video and captioned “Who is to blame? The government commission, without inspection of the contractor that carried out the work?”

The video was also viral in India, an Indian X user @ManishCEO posted the video, saying it occurred in Bihar, a state in India.

 Tagaram Chandra Shekhar, an Indian Facebook user with 2.6k followers, posted the video on 16 July 2025 at 5:44 am on his Facebook page, with the post having 176 reactions, 57 comments and 656 shares.

Eu Amo Games, with 42k Facebook followers, posted the video on 15 July 2025 at 8:10 am, with the caption “they thought it was just surface damage… until they checked the next pillar. Made with AI”.

Another Facebook page, “around the world”, posted the video with the same caption on 15 July 2025 at 8:07 am with 166 reactions, 14 comments and 27 shares.

Verification:

To verify this claim, we traced the video to one of the earliest publishers, which was a Facebook page, Eu Amo Games, known for creating AI content, and even in the caption of the video, it was written “made with AI.”

Red Flags

The video from observation shows that the bridge end shows no sign of where vehicles on it can come down, also, there are two visible pedestrians under the bridge pole, in which only one person runs for his life, while running, the video turns him into a handicap running like someone carrying a child on his head.

Many of the cars in the video are not moving, the trees on the side of the video do not respond to the collapse of the bridge, and they are very blurry. This shows the visible appearance of AI-generated content.

Second, to determine whether this viral video was made using AI or not, we examined this viral video using various AI-generated content detecting tools like Hive, and Hive gave the result that this video is 99.9% AI-generated. Based on this, we can conclude that this viral video was made by AI.

Third, the video had gone viral in India before trending on Nigerian social media. The post went viral as early as the 16th of July 2025; meanwhile, the video entered the Nigerian social media space for trending on July 23, 2025, a week later.

Furthermore, many Nigerian and Indian social media outlets have debunked the misinformation, such as TheCable, Vanguard and others.

While in India, Factly, a fact-check media house in India, signatory of IFCN, has debunked the claim as early as 17th of July 2025. This led Facebook to mark the post of Tagaram Chandra Shekhar, an Indian Facebook user and the source of the Indian video claim, as misinformation.

Lastly, the two countries witnessed a bridge collapse incident some days before the fake claims. On 17 July 2025, a section of the flyover bridge in Keffi collapsed onto a keke napep, which led to the deaths of two commuters, and this occurred as a result of a truck overload accident.

In India, on the 9th of July 2025, many Indian media houses reported the collapse of the Gujarat bridge, which left many vehicles in the Mahisagar River and several persons were feared dead.

Conclusion:

Although the video went viral, many Nigerians were not moved by the clickbait, and many showed no interest in the AI-generated video. Meanwhile, the video went viral in India, as many people shared the video from the people who posted it. The video is confirmed to be AI-generated and falsely attributed to both Nassarawa and Bihar. Users are advised to ignore and delete the misleading content.