Fact check: Social media video of 'fireworks in Cork school' is actually from Kazakhstan

The video which is currently circulating on social media and WhatsApp groups, was purported to have been filmed in Crosshaven
Fact check: Social media video of 'fireworks in Cork school' is actually from Kazakhstan

A screenshot from the video of fireworks going off in a school in Kazakhstan.

A video that has circulated widely on social media and has been forwarded hundreds of times in WhatsApp groups, showing fireworks exploding during a school play, has been debunked.

The video that purported to show "fireworks going off in a Crosshaven school" is actually from 2018, and from a nursery school in Kazakhstan.

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