Old video shows explosion in Beirut in 2020, not South Korean factory fire

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An old clip of the catastrophic explosion that devastated Lebanon's capital Beirut has resurfaced in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed a fire at a lithium battery plant in South Korea that killed 23 people in June 2024.

An old clip of the catastrophic explosion that devastated Lebanon's capital Beirut has resurfaced in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed a fire at a lithium battery plant in South Korea that killed 23 people in June 2024. The clip of the Lebanese port blast predates the factory fire in Hwaseong by nearly four years and was used in multiple news reports.

But the clip is unrelated to the Hwaseong factory fire. It previously circulated in news reports about a deadly explosion in Lebanon in August 2020.

 

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