The video shows bodies of African migrants who died in a boat wreck in 2014, not of COVID-19 - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
April 9, 2020
A disturbing video of dead bodies being washed ashore is being shared on Facebook with the claim that some countries are throwing COVID-19 infected dead bodies into the seas. FACTLY has found that the video is five years old. In August 2014, a boat with African migrants has sunk off the Libyan coast on its way to Europe. The video shows dead bodies of those victims being washed ashore onto a beach in Libya.
Sources:
Claim – Facebook post (archived)
Fact – https://arabi21.com/story/771519/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su9HqWj1Wt4
https://www.euronews.com/2014/08/25/dozens-of-migrant-bodies-are-washed-ashore-in-libya
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