An old photo of mock coffins carried by Shiite Muslims as part of a religious procession has resurfaced in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed victims of deadly tribal clashes in northwest Pakistan in July 2024. Officials said at least 42 people had been killed in the violence between Sunni Muslim and Shiite tribes, but the photo of worshippers marking the anniversary of the death of the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson was taken in December 2009.<\/h3>\n
“Be the voice of Parachinar, as their voices have been silenced<\/span>,” read a\u00a0Facebook post<\/a> shared on July 29 by a page with more than 1.3 million followers.<\/p>\n It was shared after deadly clashes<\/a> linked to a land feud between the Sunni Muslim Madagi and Shiite Mali Khel tribes in Pakistan’s mountainous northwestern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where communities abide by traditional tribal honour codes (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n Officials said at least 42 people had been killed and more than 150 wounded during days of\u00a0fighting\u00a0<\/a>with machine guns and mortars around the town of Parachinar (archived link<\/a>).<\/p>\n The clashes erupted after a gunman opened fire at a council negotiating a decades-long dispute over farmland.<\/p>\n A photo included in the post shows coffins draped in red-stained cloth being carried down a street.<\/p>\n