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Footage claiming to show the moment the Germanwings Airbus 320 plane crashed earlier today has been confirmed as a fake after fooling internet users.

The shocking video was shared widely online today by social media users who believed the video showed the crash - understood to have claimed more than 140 lives.

But the footage is simply rehashed a previous, unrelated crash, it has emerged.

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News agency Storyful, which verifies non-professional submissions to media organisations, rubbished the claims in one of its #dailydebunk posts.

In a Twitter post, it wrote: "A video being described as showing today's A320 crash is from 2013 in Afghanistan."

A separate image also being widely shared claiming to be from today's crash site was also pointed out to be from an unrelated crash site in Turkey from 2007.