A TikTok video circulating online, featuring a news broadcast, claims to show Punjab’s Senior Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb announcing a complete lockdown on the weekends due to rising smog in Lahore and Multan.

The claim is false. The video is not recent, and no such decision has been made by the Punjab government as of October 24.

Claim

“There will be a complete lockdown in Lahore and Multan next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, says Marriyum Aurangzeb,” read an Urdu-language text overlaid on a video posted on TikTok on October 19.

The video includes a graphic from a private news channel with the text: “All types of construction will be banned as well, said Marriyum Aurangzeb.”

At the time of writing, the post had been viewed over 453,000 times, shared more than 1,160 times, and liked over 9,300 times.

A similar claim was also shared on the same platform here.

Fact

The video circulating online is from last year, and the Punjab government has not recently announced a lockdown in Lahore or Multan due to poor air quality.

Geo Fact Check traced the viral video to a press conference by Minister Aurangzeb, aired on November 15, 2024, when she announced a three-day lockdown in Lahore and Multan due to the intense smog.

Furthermore, Punjab Information Minister Azma Zahid Bokhari told Geo Fact Check over the phone: “There is absolutely no possibility of any lockdown and no decision has been made about it [as yet].”

Verdict: The lockdown announcement from November 2024 has been falsely shared as a recent lockdown announcement in Lahore and Multan.

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A pilot executed an emergency landing on the sands of Huntington Beach late Thursday evening, October 23, after a single-engine aircraft suffered a complete engine failure.

No injuries are reported following the incident. This marks the third aviation crisis in Southern California in the past three weeks.

The aircraft is identified as a 1973 Cessna 172 that had departed from Santa Barbara Airport en route to John Wayne Airport around 8:30 p.m.

After an hour into the flight, the pilot reported a loss of engine power and an inability to reach the intended destination.

Corbin Carson, Huntington Beach’s public affairs manager stated, “The pilot landed the aircraft on the shore after reporting engine trouble and being unable to return to John Wayne Airport.”

The situation was examined from the air by the Huntington Beach Police Department’s helicopter, HB-1, whose pilot overheard the distress calls.

The pilot of the Cessna used his visual contact with the helicopter crew and masterfully steered the plane towards a soft landing between the Lifeguard Towers 11 and 13 near the pier at around 9:30 p.m.

“The landing was incidental and both the pilot and passenger, along with other bystanders on the beach, were not hurt,” the authorities confirmed.

The plane had not been damaged during the landing, requiring heavy machinery to be taken off the beach.

The landing and emergency landing are the third and fourth recent aviation accidents in the region, after a helicopter crash in Huntington Beach, which hospitalized five people and a forced landing of a plane in Long Beach on October 21.

The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have also been informed and will also begin investigations on the cause of engine failure.

King Charles is reportedly ‘very disappointed’ that his brother Prince Andrew affair is totally overshadowing his major historical visit to Vatican.

King Charles on Thursday became the first head of the Church of England to pray publicly with a pope since the schism with Rome 500 years ago, in a service led by Leo XIV.

The monarch and his wife, Queen Camilla, joined the US-born pope in the Sistine Chapel for a 30-minute service mixing Catholic and Anglican traditions.

It was the first time a reigning English or British monarch has prayed publicly with a pope since king Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.

King Charles, who is officially supreme governor of the Anglican mother church, earlier had his first meeting with Pope Leo, who took over as head of the world´s 1.4 billion Catholics in May following the death of Pope Francis.

The pope led the Sistine Chapel service with the archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, currently the senior cleric of the Church of England, while Charles and Camilla sat next to them.

King Charles and Camilla arrived in Vatican nearly a week after Prince Andrew announced to relinquish royal titles.

According to the Fox News Digital, commenting on it, royal expert Ian Pelham Turner said, “Obviously, King Charles is very disappointed that the Andrew affair is totally overshadowing this major historical event, and it was thought he might face questions from the media, but I think that is very unlikely now as all the media are interested in his thoughts on Andrew.”