The post surfaced as Bangladesh grappled with severe floods<\/a> that have<\/span> killed at least 40 people and left\u00a0<\/span>nearly 300,000 taking refuge in emergency shelters (archived link<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The floods came less than three weeks after the ouster of former premier Sheikh Hasina, who was forced to flee by helicopter to India, her government’s biggest political patron, during a student-led uprising.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n She was replaced by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is heading an interim government facing the monumental task of charting democratic reforms ahead of expected new elections.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Asif Mahmud, a leader of the student protests that ousted Hasina, and who is now in Yunus’ caretaker cabinet, accused<\/a> India of “creating a flood” by deliberately releasing water from dams (archived link<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n India’s foreign ministry<\/a> rejected the charge, saying its own catchment area had experienced the “heaviest rains of this year” in the same week, and that the flow of water downstream was due to “automatic releases” (archived link<\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Floods and landslides <\/span>left more than 20 people dead in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura during the same period.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The photo of the Hindu temple in India has also been shared alongside similar claims on\u00a0X<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n A reverse image search on Google found the photo is old. It was flipped horizontally from a picture <\/span>published by the English-language newspaper <\/span>The Hindu<\/a> on August 24, 2019\u00a0(archived link<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n “The Kapil Muni temple on Sagar Island in the Sunderbans, where a large number of devotees gather every year during the Gangasagar fair, is facing the threat of rising seas and will be submerged in the next few years,” the report read in part.<\/span><\/p>\n Below is a\u00a0<\/span>screenshot comparison of the circulating photo (left) and the picture published by The Hindu (right) with the matching features highlighted by AFP:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nMisrepresented picture<\/span><\/h3>\n