Indian leader tweets image of Rawalpindi damaged flyover, apologizes

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New Delhi, June 11 (TNS): On Monday, India’s main opposition party Congress’s senior leader Digvijaya Singh apologized for tweeting a picture a damaged bridge of Bhopal and questioning the Bharatiya Janata Party, when in reality the structure belonged to Pakistan

Alt News revealed the photo was of a damaged broken pillar in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Singh tweeted he got the image from one of his friends and expressed regret for not cross-checking.

Sharing the image, Singh warned of a Varanasi-like-incident where a flyover collapse reportedly killed 18, last month.

Interestingly, this particular image has been doing rounds of social media since 2016.

A Twitter user claimed this was the flyover on ISB, Hyderabad route while in 2018, some users said the flyover existed in Zikarpur, Chandigarh.

Whereas the truth is, it belongs to Pakistan, Alt News reported.