Viral Images Of Attack On Church In Nigeria Are From 2022
By Srijit Das Two photographs are now circulating online with a misleading claim that they show a recent Islamist attack on Christians at a Nigerian church on Christmas Eve. BOOM found that the photos are unrelated to the recent massacre which happened in Nigeria. The widely circulated images are from June, 2022 and originally depict a violence carried out by gunmen at a Catholic church in Nigeria's Owo city. The international news agency Reuters has reported that a prolonged violence took place in Nigeria's central Plateau state, where suspected nomadic herders rampaged through 15 villages on...