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  • 2019-12-03 (xsd:date)
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  • No, only two of these photos show landslides in West Pokot, Kenya (en)
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  • In the early hours of 23 November 2019, landslides triggered by heavy rain hit communities in Kenya’s West Pokot county, claiming dozens of lives . A day later a post appeared on Facebook claiming to show, in five photos, the aftermath of the tragedy. West Pokot Landslides: Death toll rises to 51 with over 10,000 displaced. Governor Lonyangapuo appeals for more humanitarian assistance, it reads . Do the five photos really show the devastation caused by the landslides on 23 November 2019? We checked. Photos from 2018 A Google reverse image search for the first photo reveals that it’s actually of a landslide near Cusco, Peru , in March 2018. It was posted on a gallery of images of the event, on the Peruvian Ministry of Defence’s Flickr page . The photo also appears in a March 2018 YouTube video, again described as the 2018 landslide in Peru. The second photo does show the aftermath of a landslide in West Pokot – but in May 2018 . A search for the photo led to an article on the website of Kenya’s Standard newspaper, dated 4 May 2018 and headlined: One person dies, eight injured in West Pokot landslides . We ran a TinEye reverse image search on the fourth photo and found it first surfaced online on 28 April 2018, in a report by the Star newspaper about a landslide in Gitugi in Murang’a county, where three people were killed. Only two of the five photos show the 2019 West Pokot landslides: the third one , and the fifth . – Grace Gichuhi (en)
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