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The images are from two different events, are not current, and are from different countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNational mourning has just occurred, a massive accident [\u00a0\u00a0<em>sic<\/em>\u00a0] has left 34 dead,\u201d is all that the text accompanying the photos says. In the top image, you can see what appears to be a yellow bus crushed by a truck, with firefighters working at the scene surrounded by people. In the photo below, several people watch a burning bus that is crossed in the middle of a multi-lane highway.<\/p>\n<p>The first comment leaves a link that, in theory, leads to a video with more details about the accident. But in reality,\u00a0\u00a0it leads to a website\u00a0\u00a0that talks about a supposed weight-loss remedy.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Honduras and Venezuela<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A\u00a0\u00a0reverse image search on Yandex\u00a0\u00a0of the photo of the yellow bus reveals that the crash actually occurred in Honduras in February 2017, more than seven years ago.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Fox News\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0covered the incident, which left 15 dead\u00a0, and the caption of the photo illustrating the story, which is of the same incident but taken from a different angle, provides the name of the person who took it: Fernando Antonio, for the American news agency\u00a0\u00a0<em>AP<\/em>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>A search of the photo section of that outlet\u00a0\u00a0revealed the photograph used in the post\u00a0\u00a0circulating on social media to announce the alleged accident that \u201cjust occurred.\u201d The description reads: \u201cEmergency personnel responded to an accident involving a cargo truck and a bus on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Sunday, February 5, 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cargo truck crashed into the bus on the highway outside the Honduran capital on Sunday, killing more than a dozen people, authorities said,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"middle-entry-content\"><\/div>\n<p>As for the second image, which shows a burning bus, a\u00a0\u00a0reverse image search on Google Lens\u00a0\u00a0returns\u00a0\u00a0several\u00a0\u00a0posts\u00a0\u00a0that place the photo on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela\u2019s capital, in mid-December 2023. That\u2019s eight months ago. According to reports,\u00a0\u00a0at least 30 people died\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>While the Facebook post doesn\u2019t specify where the incident occurred, it\u2019s logical that the \u201cmassive accident that left 34\u201d dead would be the same.<\/p>\n<p>As for the link that supposedly leads to the video showing the accident,\u00a0\u00a0it opens a website\u00a0\u00a0that offers a supposed weight-loss remedy.<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0\u00a0<strong>elDetector,\u00a0<\/strong>we\u00a0\u00a0\u2018ve verified posts that\u00a0\u00a0falsely\u00a0\u00a0reported\u00a0\u00a0accidents\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and directed readers to click on a link that would take them to the full information, but instead directed them to an unrelated website. This is what\u2019s known as\u00a0\u00a0<em>clickbait<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0, and its purpose is to attract visitors to a website through eye-catching text. These visits can be converted into revenue.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0<strong>false<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0that the two photographs shared together, which show two traffic accidents, are from the same incident that \u201cjust happened\u201d and left 34 dead, as one social media post claims. One of the images is from a crash in Honduras in 2017, and the other is from an accident in Venezuela in late 2023, so both are\u00a0\u00a0<strong>out of context<\/strong>\u00a0.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>Read here how we choose and assign our labels in elDetector.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The images are of two events that occurred in different locations and on different dates and reflect a pattern of misinformation and clickbait. 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