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"A Powerful Explosion Recently Shook Laascaanood, Leaving Deaths and Injuries Reported at the City Hospital"
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A Facebook post shows an image of a burning car, with the person who posted it claiming that the incident occurred in Laascaanood (Las Anod), Somalia. The post also alleges that the explosion caused deaths and injuries, with victims taken to the city's hospital. The image was shared on April 11, 2025. See archived post here
Verdict: Misleading
JamiiCheck investigated the claim and found it to be misleading. A Google reverse image search showed that the image has been online since 2015 and was not taken in Somalia, as claimed.
The results revealed that the image was actually taken in Egypt during a car bomb attack in 2015, which led to the death of Egypt’s Prosecutor General, Hisham Barakat. The Egyptian Streets website reported on June 29, 2015, under the headline "Egypt’s Prosecutor General Dies Following Car Bomb Attack."
According to reports, Barakat's convoy was attacked near the military academy in Heliopolis, Cairo. His assassination occurred just one day before the second anniversary of the nationwide protests that led to the ousting of former President Mohamed Morsi.
JamiiCheck also conducted a keyword search to verify whether any explosions occurred in Somalia on that date and found no reports of such incidents in Laascaanood or elsewhere in the country.
