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A horrifying photograph showing dozens of charred corpses has been frequently passed around online over the last several years along with the false claim that the image depicts Christians who were burned alive by Muslims in Nigeria: Although the photograph has been included in dozens of articles about a purported act of genocide, it was actually taken after an oil tanker exploded in the Democratic Republic of Congo on 2 July 2010, killing at least 230 people and injuring nearly 200 more: Confusion about the nature of the image began almost immediately after it was initially published. Articles about the Jos riots, a series of violent incidents between Christian and Muslim groups in 2010 in Nigeria, frequently included this photograph and claimed that it captured a massacre of Christians killed by Muslims who burned them alive or wielded machetes against them. Other pictures of the scene clearly show, however, that the grisly scene recorded by this particular photograph was the result of an accident and not an act of violence: Video reports from the incident also show several additional images from the tragedy: While the photograph is real, it shows the scene of an industrial accident, not an act of intentional slaughter motivated by religion (or any other cause).
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