Components of Thailand’s capital skilled minor flooding following heavy rains at first of the monsoon season, however a video shared on-line doesn’t present elements of Bangkok underneath water as claimed in Burmese-language posts. The clip has in truth circulated since Hurricane Milton struck Florida in October 2024, and components of the footage correspond to Fort Myers Seaside on the US state’s west coast.
“Flooding round (Victory Monument) in Thailand at 3:15pm immediately. Myanmar residents beware,” reads the Burmese-language caption of a Fb video shared on Could 27, 2025.
Superimposed Burmese-language textual content on the video — which exhibits partially submerged homes and buildings in an space inundated with water — reads, “Flooding in Thailand. Those that are near the ocean, please watch out”.
Screenshot of the false Fb put up, captured on June 3, 2025
The video circulated on-line days after Thai media reported {that a} mixture of heavy rain and sluggish water drainage had flooded elements of Bangkok (archived right here and right here).
The footage was additionally shared in related Burmese posts on Fb, Instagram and TikTok.
However the clip is previous and was not filmed in Bangkok.
A reverse picture search on Google utilizing keyframes from the falsely shared video led to an an identical clip printed on Instagram on October 9, 2024 (archived hyperlink).
Its caption reads: “Fort Myers Seaside, midway down Estero island @ 5:30pm on Oct 9. Milton was about double the flooding from Helene for FMB.”
Class 3 storm Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast on October 9, 2024, pounding communities nonetheless reeling from the consequences of Hurricane Helene two weeks earlier.
No less than 16 individuals died as Milton despatched tornadoes spinning throughout Florida and left thousands and thousands of buildings with out energy (archived hyperlink).
Screenshot comparability of the falsely shared video (left) and the Instagram video from October 2024 (proper)
The video matches Google Avenue View imagery of Fort Myers Seaside (archived hyperlink).
Screenshot comparability of the falsely shared video (prime) and Google Avenue View imagery from Fort Myers Seaside (backside), with corresponding buildings highlighted by AFP
AFP has beforehand debunked different misinformation associated to flooding in Thailand right here.