Claim: Heavy rains caused parts of Lagos state in southwest Nigeria to flood on July 8, 2022. To illustrate the devastating effects of these rains, several social media accounts and blogs shared a photo showing poultry drowned by flooding. However, AFP Fact Check found that the picture was not from Lagos, but an old photo taken in Bolivia.
Fact-check: Photo does not show poultry killed in Lagos flooding, but by Bolivian floods in 2021
Verdict: photo does not show poultry killed in lagos flooding, but by bolivian floods in 2021
Organisation: AFP Fact Check
Author: Tonye Bakare
Date published: 2022-07-20T11:27:00