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New Delhi: A video is going viral on social media with a claim that a helicopter and a truck collided in Amritsars Ratan Singh Chowk area. The 29-second clip shows a truck driving into the moving blades of a parked helicopter, leaving them damaged.

Due to the collision, debris from both the vehicles scattered on the road.

However, the truth is that the video is not from Punjabs Amritsar but from Brazil.

On January 21, 2020, a news report titled Police helicopter chops off lorry roof when driver smashes into the rotor blades as aircraft prepares for take-off from a Brazilian city street had appeared in Mail Online.

The report had stated that a passing white lorry collided with the blades of a police helicopter, which was readying to take off from a road in a Brazilian city. The footage carried in the report was the same video, which is now being claimed to be from Amritsar.

The incident actually took place in the Second District of Rio Branco, in the northwestern state of Acre (Brazil). The helicopter in the video belonged to the Integrated Centre of Aerial Operations (CIOPAER) of the Military Police. The truck was being used by the office of Secretary of State for Health to ferry hospital waste.

Two of the five people in the helicopter had reportedly got injured.

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Fake news alert: Helicopter-truck crash video doing rounds on social is not from Amritsar. Here's the truth - Times Now