Bhubaneswar: Reports of Dawood Ibrahim and his wife contracting COVID-19 went viral on Friday. A day later, a news channel quoted a source to report that the underworld don had kicked the bucket in Karachi.
Thereafter, several other media organisations flashed the news of Dawood’s ‘death’, though there was no confirmation.
In fact, Anees Ibrahim earlier rubbished reports of his brother Dawood contracting the COVID-19 virus.
Read more: Dawood Ibrahim Not Infected With COVID-19: Brother
Netizens had a whale of a time after news of Dawood’s ‘death’ did the rounds. There were memes and jokes galore on Twitter.
One of them tweeted, ‘Till Bollywood people don’t start mourning Dawood Ibrahim’s death don’t believe these reports.”
“rumours about dawood Ibrahim’s death , it feels another Kim-Jong-Un moment,” posted another.
Here are some of the hilarious tweets:
https://twitter.com/The_veenaD/status/1269144344763613185?s=20
How many times you’ll k!ll him?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂
— A_feminist (@AngieTribecca) June 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/karanku100/status/1269149411864502273?s=20
Dawood marna seasonal flu hai. Har season mein nayi bimaari se marta hai 😆
— urbanomed 🏳️🌈 (@udhan_khatola) June 6, 2020
everyone to coroma virus. pic.twitter.com/wZtIf7Eewl
— Pranjul Sharma (@pranjultweet) June 6, 2020