Fake warnings about flooding in Myanmar's Sagaing region are misleadingly sharing a photo taken in 2015 While parts of the country have genuinely been hit by monsoon floods this month, there have been no such reports in Sagaing
Sagaing's Emergency Rescue Service"We have a regular rise of water level, but there is no serious flooding. We usually dispatch rescue efforts if there are floods, and there have been none this year," he told AFP on August 19.of The Associated Press news agency, which said it was taken in August 2015.
The photo caption reads:"A man rows his boat by the entrance signboard of Kalay township submerged in water, in Sagaing, Myanmar, Sunday, August 2, 2015." Here is a screenshot comparison of the photo shared in false posts and on The Associated Press's website :More than 100 people werein Myanmar following weeks of torrential rain, with nearly one million people affected.
Floods from the heavy monsoon season cut through swathes of South and Southeast Asia, claiming hundreds of lives and displacing millions. AFP published various photos of flooding in the Sagaing region at the time, including the gate of a monastery and the city hall in Kalay inundated by floodwaters.several regions to be disaster zones as a result of the flooding.
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