Wrote: Etrit Rexhepi
"Scary footage from the holy site of MECCA in Saudi Arabia, huge hail covers Mecca", is part of the caption of a video showing footage after a hailstorm in a location.
it CONTENT with this claim was published on March 22 on Facebook, by a page called "A1TV".
But what is the truth?
Hibrid.info has found that it is not about the city of Mecca.
As of the time of writing, the video has been viewed over 246 times and has received over 800 likes and over 70 comments.
Hibrid.info has researched through the automated search program, "InVID" and has found the same video published with a description indicating that it is about the city. Ranyah, which is also located in Saudi Arabia (see here and here).
A search by hibrid.info found that the distance between Ranyah and Mecca is 456,1 km (see here).
Also, the results after manual search via "Google" have provided information that the hailstorm occurred in Ranyah (see here).
Analyze:
A video claimed to show a hailstorm in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
But, after research, it was found that the event took place in Ranyah, also a place in Saudi Arabia, but over 450 km from Mecca.
Based on its working methodology, hibrid.info assesses the content as "unverified".
Reasoning:
The "Unverified" rating is given to those informative contents that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which could not be verified due to certain circumstances (speed, lack of sources) during the publication of the content.