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schema:url	http://annielab.org/2024/01/04/misleading-dated-photos-were-shared-as-images-of-nigeria-christmas-attack/
schema:text	Misleading: Dated photos were shared as images of Nigeria Christmas attack On Dec. 26, 2023, a post on X featuring two images claimed they show the Christmas church attack in Nigeria. According to media reports (for example, by the Financial Times and Voice of America), armed gangs of bandits carried out a series of attacks in central Nigeria during the Christmas season, with at least 160 reported deaths. The X post garnered 15,700 retweets and 31,600 likes, with quotes in various languages, including Finnish, Greek, Chinese, and others. However, Annie Lab found these images are more than a year old. They were taken in June 2022, after the attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo state, southwestern Nigeria, which killed 50 people. The Associated Press reported about the incident and credited the images to its photographer Rahaman A Yusuf on June 5, 2022. Annie Lab located the spot called St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church on Google Maps and found that several users mentioned the church attack in Nigeria in 2022 in the reviews and uploaded pictures of its interior. These images confirm that St. Francis Catholic Church is indeed the church in the photos shared on X, but they are from another attack in 2022. Situated in the southwestern part of Nigeria, this church is not connected to the Christmas attack in Plateau State in central Nigeria in 2023. According to the Guardian and the Financial Times, Plateau State is located at the junction between the predominantly Muslim northern region and the predominantly Christian southern region. The ongoing conflicts between different ethnic, religious, pastoral and farming communities have been raging for decades. Reuters and India Today had also published fact-checking stories about the same claim on X.
schema:mentions	Plateau State dbpedia:Owo Financial Times Fact-checking Ondo State Greek language India Today Christians Associated Press Reuters Chinese language Google Maps Agriculture Catholic Church Christmas Pope Francis Nigeria Muslims Francis Xavier Finnish language dbpedia:Annie_Awards
schema:reviewRating	Misleading. The two images show another attack in June 2022 in southwestern Nigeria.
schema:author	annie-lab
schema:datePublished	2024-01-04 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
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