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Fire breaks out at Solapur Airport in Maharashtra, local media blames firecrackers during #9pm9minutes campaign. https://t.co/UJKlxRGa3h — Janta Ka Reporter (@JantaKaReporter) 1586110711000

Congree IT cell @srivatsayb shares video from march 3rd to spread fake news https://t.co/j4Sgovh9cU — Shreeharsha Perla (@harshaperla) 1586110145000

सोलापूर ब्रेकिंग :- सोलापूर विमानतळ परिसरात पुन्हा लागली आग. - दिवे लावण्याच्या वेळेदरम्यान लागली भीषण आग.- आगी… https://t.co/BrkgqhhXBW — sagar surawase (@sagarsurawase) 1586104890000

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Several media portals, Congress worker and influencers including fact checkers and celebrated TV anchors, among many others, tweeted and retweeted visuals of a fire incident claiming they were from a fire accident caused due to burning of firecrackers in Solapur after PM Modi ’s call for 9 pm candlelight vigil on Sunday.Some of the screengrabs and tweets of the media outlets sharing these visualsA celebrated journalist tweeted one of the videos above and said, “Now fire breaks out in Solapur too”. After the tweet went viral, he deleted it.Congress worker Srivatsa too was caught by an alert Twitter user quote-tweeting same visuals with similar claim.Here’s the tweet from where Srivatsa sourced the visuals. Srivatsa’s tweet now stands deleted.The visuals were from an incident in February, 2020 when a fire broke out at Solapur airport in Maharashtra Using ‘Solapur fire’ as keywords on YouTube, we found a video uploaded by ABP Majha on February 3, 2020, which had the same visuals as the one shared above.Here’s a comparison:Times Fact Check has found that visuals from a 2-month old video have been used by many false claiming them to be visuals of fire incident in Solapur after Modi’s 9 pm candlelight vigil.