Photo has circulated since November 2020 in reports about woman attacked in Bangladesh
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- Published on May 26, 2021 at 11:45
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- By AFP India
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The photo was shared here in a Facebook post on May 5, 2021.
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The post’s Hindi-language caption translates to English as: “Bengal's honour has been robbed. Is this woman not a daughter of Bengal, only Mamata is a woman there? Shame on those women who are still supporting Mamta despite being women."
Mamata refers to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, whose party, All India Trinamool Congress emerged victorious for the third time in state assembly polls in April.
Deadly clashes erupted between supporters of rival political parties around the state after the results were announced on May 2, 2021.
The photo was also shared here, here, here and here on Facebook; and here, here, here and here on Twitter; alongside an identical claim.
The claim is false.
A reverse image search on Google found the photo was shared alongside two other images of the same woman on Twitter here on November 4, 2020.
The tweet claims the woman was injured during an attack on a Hindu family in the Hathazari locality of Bangladeshi coastal district Chittagong.
A further keyword search found the incident reported here on November 5, 2020 by Bangladeshi media.
The report used the same photo of the injured woman.
“Anamika Das, victim of atrocity by the hands of land-grabbers in Chattogram”, reads the headline in Bengali.
“A couple of men, namely Rubel, Shakil and Arman, allegedly attacked Anukul Master's son and granddaughter - Ratan Nath and Anamika Das - in order to forcibly grab their lands in Aman Bazar of Hat Hazari, Chattogram, on November 1, 2020,” the report says.
An AFP journalist in Bangladesh found the logo on a chair in the photo is that of a Bangladeshi furniture brand "regal".
The brand is owned by RFL group.
The incident was also reported here on the same day by another Bangladeshi media site.
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