A heart-wrenching image of a man carrying a child from a blast site is being widely shared on social media platforms with a claim that visuals are of the recent Peshawar blast where 30 people were killed.
A Facebook user shared the image with a caption saying, “At least 30 people were killed and more than 50 injured in a bomb explosion during Friday prayers at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan: Geo News.”
The same image is being widely shared with a similar caption in Hindi.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral image and found that it was shared with a misleading claim.
On performing Reverse Image Search, we found the same image on the Associated Press website with the caption, “A Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a blast shortly after a car exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in northwestern Pakistan Sunday, killing scores of people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar in a week, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad).”
As per the details, the image shows the aftermath of a blast in Pakistan on September 29, 2013.
According to other reports published on the incident, a powerful car bomb blast killed at least 33 people, including women and children, in a busy market in the Pakistani city.
However, it is true that on March 4, 2022, a blast took the lives of 56 people in a Shiite mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Hence, with the above information, it can be concluded that the image is being shared with a misleading claim.
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