According to several media reports, on October 15, 2024, more than 260 Afghan refugees were killed by Iranian forces in the Kalagan region of Iran. Following the incident, several social media users shared old and unrelated images and videos in relation to the mass killing of Afghan refugees by Iranian forces.
Recently, an image has been widely shared by several social media users in connection with the incident.
You can see a few such posts below:
However, the Fact Crescendo Findings show that an unrelated image from another recent incident which happened in Balochistan province of Pakistan on 10 October, has been shared with context to the recent mass killing of Afghan refugees by Iranian Forces.
Fact Check:
Several media reports emerged about the incident of mass killing of Afghan refugees by Iranian forces while trying to enter the country from Pakistan illegally.
For further investigation, we applied Google reverse image search on the image shared by social media users. Also, we noticed the writing which appears on the picture. On the white piece of cloth, the name of Edhi is written in English and Urdu, which is a charitable foundation of ambulances and having services in Pakistan. Morver, the shared picture is actually from another recent incident which happened in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
Excelsior News channel has published a short video depicting dead people of the balochistan incident, the picture has been used as the thumbnail in the video.
A well known human rights advocate and social media activist in Balochistan, Mahrang Baloch, also published similar picture of labrors killed in the October 10 incident on her X page and wrote:
The brutal murder of 20 poor miners in Duki last night is yet another dark reminder that Balochistan has become a totally lawless land. Nobody—from poor laborers to common working people to political activists—is safe here. As the conflict grows uglier, the likelihood of increased military presence, money in the name of security operations, and corruption rises. My prayers and thoughts are with those affected by last night’s tragedy.
An Urdu language news channel also published the same picture and wrote
“20 workers were killed and 7 others were injured in an attack by unknown people on a coal mine in Dhaka district of Balochistan”
You can further read more about the incident of mass killings of Afghan refugees by Iranian forces below:
Conclusion
From the above investigation, it is clear that with context to the incident of mass killings of Afghans by Iranian forces, an unrelated image from another recent incident from Pakistan’s Balochistan has been shared by social media users.
