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India Today found that pictures from stampedes in South Korea's Seoul and Israel are being linked to the stampede in the Yemeni capital.
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India Today Fact Check
This image dates back to October 2022 and shows a crowded street in Seoul just before a stampede.
At least 78 people were killed in a stampede in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on April 20. The people had gathered to receive charitable donations which were being distributed on the occasion of Ramadan.
Social media is flooded with visuals of the tragedy. Among them, an image showing a huge crowd near a building with fancy lights has gone viral and is gaining huge traction online. Many social media users have attributed this image to the Yemen stampede.
Several media outlets including India TV, Punjabi Jagran, News 18 Kannada, Dainik Bhaskar, TV9 Marathi and Rozana Spokesman used this image in their reports covering stampede in Sanaa.
Another image showing a rescue team carrying a person’s body on a stretcher is also being shared in the context of the Yemen stampede. The archived version of this post can be seen here.
India Today found that both viral images are old and precede the stampede in Yemen. The first image is, in fact, from October 2022 and shows a crowded street in South Korea’s capital city Seoul just before a stampede.
While the second image is of rescue workers carrying the body of a person after a stampede that occurred in Israel in 2021.
Our Probe
The spread and expanse of the area seen in the first image are quite different from that of the Yemen stampede.
Using reverse search, we found the viral image in a news report published on October 30, 2022. Per the report, the image shows a street full of people in the Itaewon district of Seoul before a stampede that killed many. The people had gathered there to celebrate Halloween.
The Telegraph and CNN also reported on the tragedy in October 2022 and featured the viral image.
In this human calamity, around 154 partygoers were killed in a crowd surge during annual Halloween celebrations in Seoul.
What about the second image?
Using Google Translate, we translated the text written over the ambulance. The text read ‘Zaka’, which is an emergency response service in Israel.
Next, we reverse-searched this image. It led us to a USA Today report published on April 29, 2021.
According to the report, the image shows security officials and rescuers carrying the body of a victim who died in a stampede at a Jewish religious festival celebration in Israel. Lag BaOmer, a Jewish festival popular in Israel, was being celebrated at Mount Meron when the stampede broke out. Around 40 people lost their lives in this incident.
It’s evident that these viral images of old stampedes are being falsely linked to the recent Yemen stampede.
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