In March 2025, the body of a person killed by a separatist gunman siege in southwestern Pakistan was found in March 2025 from the scene, and a photo was mistakenly shared on social media, claiming it showed the victim’s coffin. This photo actually shows the coffin of Pakistani army soldiers killed in a bomb attack in February 2011.
“Thank you, brothers Baloch.” A photo was written in part of the Hindi language title with a coffin with a Pakistani flag on it, shared on X on March 14, 2025.
Authorities retrieved separatist gunmen in the poor but mineral-rich Bal Road Chincheon province (Archived Link) in southwestern Pakistan, authorities searched the bodies of dozens of people killed in the train siege (archived Link).
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claims that the attack on the train was an attack carrying 450 passengers, accusing outsiders of plundering the province’s many separatist groups.
The subtitles add: “We are not taught to celebrate the death of someone, but Pakistanis celebrated the death of 40 soldiers in the Pulwama terrorist attack, and it is our time.”
After the attack, the relationship between two nuclear-armed South Asian countries dived, Pakistani militants claimed.
Screenshot of False X Post, captured on April 2, 2025
X and similar posts on Facebook also shared the same photo.
However, the loop image is old.
A keyword search resulted in the same photo in the AFP archive, with the title saying it was released on February 10, 2011 by the Army’s Communication Service.
It said it showed officials “providing prayers to Army soldiers during the funeral, who were killed in a suicide bomb attack by a teenager recruit from Pakistan Army, which was a parade about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the regional capital Peshawar on February 10, 2011.
Comparison of screenshots of fake posts (left) and photos from AFP archives (right)
Reverse image searches on Google also resulted in photos published in reports on attacks on British newspaper The Independent (archive link).
AFP has made more misunderstandings about the visual effects of train hijacking with Pakistan.
