A video is being widely shared on social media in which girls in school uniforms are seen crying while some are on the ground.
The video is shared with a caption suggesting that it shows Muslim school girls in India being injected with a ‘blood cancer vaccine’ that makes them infertile.
A social media user shared the video with a caption that reads, "In India, Muslim girls are being given injections to make barren in schools because of blood cancer vaccination! Some videos related to this have been spread on social media. It is said that many schools in different regions of India are being forced to undergo infertility, especially among Muslim girls. If they object, they are being insisted upon. Many girls are getting sick in school because of this. Posted a video and wrote, Ban your girls from taking injections to school, even if they are forced, girls should protest together.”
SouthCheck found that the claim is false. We found that the video is from Pakistan and shows female students injured by police tear gas shells.
On a Google reverse image search, we found that the same video was uploaded on YouTube on May 9, 2024. The caption read, “Police fired tear gas at girls’ schools in Dadyal in Kashmir.”
The video was also shared by an X account on May 9, 2024, with a caption that reads, “This is also a clip from Dadyal where tear gas was excessively used by police and unidentified individuals dressed in civilian clothes on schools, causing female students engaged in annual examinations to faint.”
Using the information, we found that the incident was also reported by Dawn on May 10, 2024. According to the report, Police in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) detained around 70 activists ahead of a planned long march by the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee demanding electricity billing reform.
In protest, the group called a ‘shut-down and wheel-jam’ strike across the region. The report further said, in Dadyal tehsil of Mirpur, overnight raids that detained over a dozen activists triggered confrontation: traders organised a protest at Maqbool Butt Shaheed Chowk, and clashes ensued. Tear-gas shells fired by police struck a nearby school and worsened conditions for several girls. Traders retaliated by pelting stones. From hiding, Nawaz Mir released a video message condemning the authorities’ ‘brutal attitude’ in Dadyal and declared that the protest, originally scheduled for May 11, would now be held on May 10.
We found the same video had earlier went viral in Pakistan with a caption suggesting that girls in Pakistan were being injected with HPV vaccines. It was then debunked by The Dawn, one of Pakistan's media organisation.
Hence, we can ascertain that the viral claim is false.