The road is not in Bangladesh, and the picture was taken before Amphan

Tausif N Akbar
The Fact Check
Published in
2 min readApr 6, 2022

Pictures of a road have been spread on social media under the two headlines “Roads of Bangladesh” and “Roads damaged by cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh”. The picture shows the carpeting of a road in a rural area being lifted up and removed. See below….

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See the posts here and here.

Fact Check: The investigation revealed that the picture was not of a road damaged by Cyclone Amphan. And this is not a picture of the streets of Bangladesh.

The reverse image search method revealed that the image was first uploaded to two Facebook pages in Malaysia on December 26, 2019. See here, here and archive here. Also we found a tweet on December 30, 2019.

Cyclone Amphan hit Bangladesh on May 16, 2020, but the image had been on the Internet for about six months before.

Screenshot from wikipedia

Also AFP, altnews, factcrescendo tamil has already checked the facts.

Originally, the film was misinterpreted after the cyclone Amphan hit India (West Bengal, Odisha, Andaman Islands), Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand in 16 may 2020, claiming the loss of Amphan through social media in these regions including Bangladesh.

Verdict:

The road is not in Bangladesh, and the picture was taken before Amphan

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Tausif N Akbar
The Fact Check

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