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  • 2022-03-28 (xsd:date)
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  • This photo shows the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, not Myanmar (en)
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  • A photo of a solitary figure surrounded by ruin and rubble has been shared thousands of times in Facebook posts that claim it shows a town in Myanmar hit by a storm that made landfall on March 22, 2022. In fact, the picture shows the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan, which battered the central Philippines in 2013. The situation at 3pm in Labutta. My house is gone too. Take care friends, reads a Burmese-language Facebook post from March 22 shared more than 5,000 times. Labutta is a town in Myanmar's southern Ayeyarwady region. A screenshot of the misleading post taken on March 23, 2022 The same photo was shared in similar Facebook posts here , here , here and here . The posts circulated after heavy wind and rain pummelled Myanmar's southwest coast as a tropical storm made landfall on March 22. The storm destroyed houses, shops and a pagoda in Latbutta, The Irrawaddy reported . However, the photo circulating online was not taken in Myanmar in March 2022. A reverse image search on Google traced the photo to an article from November 12, 2013 by Reuters news agency. The article is headlined Tacloban in ruins, referring to a city in the Philippines that was devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan, which struck on November 8, 2013. Haiyan left more than 7,360 people dead or missing across the central Philippines, with a tsunami-like storm surge wiping out communities and triggering a global humanitarian response. The photo, which features 12th in a slideshow of 36 images from the aftermath of the disaster, reads: People stand among debris and ruins of houses destroyed after Super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city in central Philippines November 10, 2013. Below is a screenshot comparison of the photo shared in misleading posts (left) and in Reuters's article (right). Screenshot comparison of the photo shared in misleading posts (L) and in Reuters's article (R) AFP has previously debunked images of the aftermath of the typhoon shared in a misleading context, including here , here and here . (en)
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