Was the Image of a flooded poultry farm from Lagos?

During rainy seasons, there are usually reports of floods in Lagos and this year is no exception. The impact of the floods has been so devastating that Premium Times recently reported that seven people died in the Lagos flood.

A Twitter user, Larry (@doplarry), shared an image of flooded poultry, claiming it is a flooded poultry farm in Lagos State. “Someone’s poultry farm in Lagos,” he captioned.

 A similar claim was made on Facebook by a page, Senior Man, which claimed that the picture is someone’s poultry farm in Lagos.

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 The facts are… 

A reverse image search was done to verify the claim that the image is of a poultry farm in Lagos.

We found that the image had been on the internet since 2021, because a Bolivian website, Los Tiempos has the image featured in a news report that the Bolivian Navy evacuated 30 families from the tropics affected by flood while there are two thousand hectares of damaged crops by flood caused by heavy rains in the municipalities of Chimoré and Puerto Villarroel, Bolivia on April 26, 2021.

Conclusion

The image appeared on the internet in 2021 in Bolivia when some parts of Bolivia got flooded. It has nothing to do with the recent flooding in Lagos, Nigeria. Hence, this claim is false.

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