Fact Check: Old photos shared as brothers from Prayagraj dying by suicide following Akhilesh Yadav’s defeat in UP

India Today's Anti Fake News War Room found that the incidents of three brothers dying by suicide in Prayagraj are not related to the Uttar Pradesh assembly election results.

On Thursday, March 10, Yogi Adityanath scored a major win for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh. Amid this, a collage of three photos went viral on social media.

Several Facebook users shared the collage, where three different persons could be seen hanging. The claim in Hindi alongside these photos translated to: “Three brothers died by suicide in Prayagraj after watching Akhilesh Yadav getting defeated in the UP polls.”

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The India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found the images had nothing to do with the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. No such incidents of three brothers dying by suicide took place in Prayagraj, following the poll results.

Archived versions of posts with similar claims can be seen here and here.

While investigating the claim, we first conducted a keyword search to find out whether any search incident took place in Prayagraj while the counting process was on. We found no media reports.