Fact Check: Photo of 2016 Quetta police academy suicide-bombing shared as victims of BLA strike in Panjgur
India Today
A photo shared by pro-BLA handles on social media claims to be the coffins of Pakistani personnel killed in the Panjgur operation. India Today Anti Fake News War Room found the claim to be misleading.
A twin strike by Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) rebels on Pakistani army posts at Panjgur and Noshki claimed the lives of nine soldiers earlier this month. Following the attack, Islamabad denied claims by the insurgents that at least a hundred soldiers were killed in the attacks.
A photo shared by pro-BLA handles on social media claims to be the coffins of Pakistan personnel killed in the Panjgur operation. "#PakistanArmy Daal koor army dead bodies from Panjgur not countable more then 100 body's some of body's SSG commands body's," one such tweet read.
India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found the claim to be misleading. The image shared was shot in 2016, when suicide bombers infiltrated the Quetta police training academy and killed 59 people.
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When we reverse-searched the image, we found it used in an article by prominent Pakistan news outlet Dawn. The report was a photo story from October 25, 2016, on the devastation caused by the terrorist attack.
