Debunked: Video of burning church not from Manipur

The incident occurred at Drosnay, a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.

Update: 2023-07-17 19:15 GMT

Video features a church set ablaze

CHENNAI: A recent video features a church set ablaze. A part of the building is seen collapsing under the impact. A Twitter user claimed that the burning church was the 300-year-old St. Joseph’s Church in Sugnu, Imphal in Manipur. BJP’s extremists had set it on fire, he claimed. AltNews ran a check and found that the footage pertains to a historic half-timbered church in the Marne, that was destroyed by fire. The incident occurred at Drosnay, a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.

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