Criminals Killing People in Beggars Disguise for Organ Trade: Fact Check

Story:

Reports from Orissa today suggest 500 criminals disguised as beggars are traveling from Bihar to Jharkhand, killing people they come across and selling their bodies to medical colleges and organ trade. 6-7 of them have been arrested and interrogation revealed about 500 such dangerous criminals. So brothers, forward this message to as many family members and friends as possible.

Screenshot from the accompanying Gory video

Other Versions

(Hindi)
उड़ीसा से आज खबर मिली है की बिहार से झारखंड होते हुए भिखारी के बेस में पांच सौ लोग निकले है जो रासते में जो मिलता है उसको काटकर कलेजे अौर कीडनी निकाल रहे है जिसमे से छः सात लोग पकड़े गाए है .जो पकडे़ गए हैं वही लोग को कडी़ पुछताच के बाद पांच सौ लोग आने की बात काबुल की है इसलिए हमारे भाईयों मेसेज को आपके जितने परिवार और मेंबर है सबको परवड कीजे इसमे एक विडयो भी

(Telugu)
ఒరిస్సా నుంచి ఈ రోజు అందిన సమాచారం ఏమిటంటే,,,బీహార్ నుంచి జార్ఖండ్ మధ్యలో బిచ్చగాళ్ళ వేషంలో ఒక 500 వందల మంది బయలుదేరారు..మార్గమధ్యంలో ఒంటరిగా దొరికిన వాళ్ళను చంపి మెడికల్ కాలేజీలకు,,మరియు కిడ్నీ ల దందా లకు సరఫరా చేస్తున్నారు…వీరిలో 6,7 మంది పట్టు బడినారు…ఆ 6,7 మందిని విచారిస్తే వారు మేము కాక ఇంకా 500 వందల మంది ఉన్నాం అని ఒప్పుకున్నారు…అందుకే బ్రదర్స్ ఎంత వీలైతే అంత మందికి ఈ మెసేజ్ ని మీ,,మీ ,,
మిత్రులకు వాట్సాప్ ఇతరత్రా ద్వారా చేరవేయగలరు….

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Fact Check:

A message circulating widely on WhatsApp and other social media platforms purports to show how brutally a criminal gang is killing people in beggars disguise for the sake of organ trade. Allegedly, a report coming from Orissa mentions about 500 such criminals moving from Bihar to Jharkhand, killing whoever they come across. It says they are selling such dead bodies to medical colleges and their organs for business trade. Notably, the messages in different languages also accompany a gory video showing few men picking up body parts of brutally cut humans lying on ground. The video is unfortunately real, but the attributed scare messages are not true.

Criminal Gang Killing People in Beggars Disguise?

The ‘disturbing’ messages are circulating through WhatsApp groups and Facebook among others. They are warning people of imminent danger, asking to forward them to others. However, they don’t carry any citations suggesting such case of hundreds of criminal gang members killing people in beggars disguise. Coming to the video in question, the human dead bodies with brutally cut off parts is from a different incident.

Image of 2017 Prison riot in Brazil — 2017 Prison riot in Brazil

In January 2017, a prison riot broke between rival drug gangs in Brazilian Amazon, in the northern city of Manaus. The members of rival prison gangs began slaughtering each other, decapitating and dismembering many prison inmates. At least 56 inmates were killed in the 2017 Brazil prison riots. It is one of the most violent massacres in the history of the Brazilian prison system. The video in fact shows prisoners cleaning up the brutal consequences of one gang attack on another. The jails in Brazil housed inmates well beyond their intended capacity. Below is a video news report after the man slaughter in Brazil prison.

So, the accompanying scare messages saying criminal gang of 500 are traveling from Bihar to Jharkhand killing people in beggars disguise for the sake of organ trade is a hoax. In reality, there are no such credible reports. The mentioned video comes from a different context, showing the aftermath of a prison riot in Brazil.