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A photo of a man with puffy eyes and swollen lips, used as evidence of a false claim Africa Check debunked in May 2020 , resurfaced on Facebook in June 2021 with another false claim . This time, it is described as showing a Chinese man beaten in Kilimani for allegedly sending flowers to his watchman’s wife. Kilimani is a suburb of Nairobi , Kenya ’s capital. On 11 May 2020, the photo was posted with the claim it showed a Chinese man mercilessly beaten in Kilimani for deliberately coughing in the face of a security guard. On 11 May that year, the World Health Organization reported that Kenya had 672 confirmed Covid-19 cases, with 32 deaths. Here’s the real story of the photo’s origins. Stung by bees while harvesting honey The photo first surfaced online in a now-deleted video posted on a Cambodia -based Facebook page on 1 May 2020. The video has since been deleted. We also found the photo on a Facebook page in Thailand, posted in May 2020. It also appears in a Reddit post from a year ago. Both posts say the photo shows a man stung by bees while harvesting honey. The photo appears to have originated in either Cambodia or Thailand, not Nairobi’s Kilimani neighbourhood. It doesn’t show a Chinese man beaten in Kilimani for allegedly sending flowers to his watchman’s wife in June 2021.
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