CCTV footage from inside an elevator which shows two men kidnapping two girls is doing rounds on social media. In the video, two girls inside the elevator are ambushed by two adults when the lift doors open. They force the girls to inhale chloroform and carry the unconscious girls away on their shoulders.
The video is shared with a caption claiming that the video is from Bengaluru, Karnataka. The caption also hints that the abductors are Muslims.
A social media user shared the video with a caption, “#कर्नाटक #बंगलौर देखिए किस तरह जेहादी लिफ्ट में से हिन्दू लड़कियों को क्लोरोफार्म सुंघा कर अपहरण कर लिफ्ट में बेहोश कर सीधे कार पार्किंग में खड़ी कार में दोनों लड़कियों को डालाऔर निकल गए,जिन लड़कियों और महिलाओं का अपहरण होता हैकभी पता नहीं चलता हमेशा के लिए गायब कर दी जाती हैं! (#Karnataka #Bangalore See how the Jihadis abducted the Hindu girls from the lift by making them unconscious by using chloroform. They put both the girls in the car parked in the parking lot and drove away. The whereabouts of the girls and women who are kidnapped are never known and they disappear forever.)”
SouthCheck found that the video is from Egypt, not Bengaluru.
On searching with appropriate keywords, we found the same video uploaded by an Instagram page, Megazettes on December 21, 2023, with the caption, “A video showing the abduction of two girls in Nasr City went viral online, the Ministry of Interior announced the arrest of the two suspects involved in aiding the father to kidnap his daughters.”
The caption further reads, “The video shows the father with one of the suspects while the other was driving their car. As it turns out, the father had left the country with his daughter ‘willingly’ via Cairo International Airport on the same date as the incident. The incident was reported on December 13, 2023, by the mother at Nasr City Police Station.”
We further found the same incident also reported by Roya News on December 21, 2023. The report suggested that the father drugged and attempted to kidnap his daughters due to a family dispute in an elevator in Cairo, Egypt. The report reads, “The father subsequently left for ‘an Arab country’ with one of the girls, while the other remained with her mother.”