A video clip is massively viral on social media. It shows a group of men who seem to be wielding guns near a police vehicle subsequently moving inside a residential lane. Later in the video, one can sport an unconscious person lying on the road. On February 11, Rangoli Chandel, Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut’s sister, tweeted the video and claimed, “Meanwhile over 25,000 killed they have started shooting down all the people with the virus in China,” Her tweet has amassed close to 2,100 retweets. Meanwhile over 25,000 killed they have started shooting down all the people with the virus in China… this is so sad 🥺🥺🥺 pic.twitter.com/IfVWMUuSw6 — Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) February 13, 2020 A closer look at the video reveals that it is a combination of at least four different sequences which have been merged into one video. In the course of this article, we will fact-check the four sequences individually. Authorities in China had appealed to other countries to help with supplies of protective face mask, according to a BBC report published on February 6, 2020. “Medical advice in China is to change face masks regularly, as often as four times a day for medical teams, which would require two million masks each day. This is the procedure being followed in one of the main hospitals in Wuhan, the largest city in Hubei province,” stated the report, adding that there is widespread use of face masks among the ordinary population, whether or not they’ve been instructed to do so by the authorities. Posted below is a video report by The New York Times titled, “How Residents in Wuhan Are Coping With Coronavirus.” It shows multiple shots of almost every resident in Wuhan wearing a mask. Thus, it is unlikely that people in Hubei province’s Wuhan city would be seen without a mask given the mass panic triggered by the outbreak of coronavirus. In the third sequence, one can easily spot people who aren’t wearing masks standing near the person being attended by medical workers. Same with the fourth sequence – multiple people can be spotted without a protective mask. Below, we analyse the sequences individually. In the first and second sequences, three people with identical clothing can be spotted. In the screenshots posted below, one can read ‘police’ and the Chinese police emblem inscribed on the car. The first two sequences only show gun-wielding men moving into a lane surrounded by apartments. The second sequence is also viral with a separate claim that “three unknown people” wielding guns and wearing protective gear were walking somewhere in Wuhan. It has been circulating since February 1, 2020. We found a tweet in Chinese which said that this video was shot after two people were bitten by “crazy dogs”. The men in the clip are apparently hunting for the dogs in a street in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province in 2018. “It can be verified that the language in the video is Yiwu dialect,” reads the tweet posted on February 2, 2020. China Global Television Network (CGTN) tweeted the screenshots of the same video and informed that police in Yiwu, Zhejiang district called-out social media posts falsely alleging that the police was “shooting people sick with #coronavirus that refuse to be evacuated.” According to the police, the armed officers were only dealing with a rabid dog. Police said that the video has been maliciously edited with separate scenes. Police in Yiwu, Zhejiang said online video alleging them “shooting people sick with #coronavirus that refuse to be evacuated” is fake The police said the video was “maliciously” manipulated with separate scenes since the armed officers were only dealing with a rabid dog pic.twitter.com/10NLLX7B1I — CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) February 13, 2020 Yiwu city falls under the Jinhua jurisdiction of Zhejiang province. The license number on the police vehicle is ‘G1796’ where ‘G’ stands for Jinhua. We corroborated this with an image of a different police vehicle available online. In this sequence as well, one can hear sounds in the background which come across as gunshots. However, it is important to note that all that the viewers can spot are men, possibly medical professionals with protective gear, attending those lying on the ground. While there are sounds of gunshots in the background, no visuals of actual firing can be seen. Moreover, passers-by go on about as usual though it is being suggested patients are being shot dead. It is unlikely that gunshots would not arouse panic. There is also no bloodshed in the video. With a Chinese keyword search on Twitter, we found a clearer, extended version of the same video posted on January 26, 2020.