Lighthouse Journalism found an image being widely shared on a social media platform, the image featured skeletal remains. It was claimed that these were recent from Dharmasthala in Karnataka, associated with recent news of the burial sites.
During the investigation, we found that the image is old and not related to the Dharmasthala case.
Claim:
Facebook user నేనే సురేష్ shared the image, associating it with the Dharmasthala case.
Other users are also sharing the image, claiming it to be recent from Dharmasthala.
Investigation:
The text on the image says, “It would be good if there were at least one woman among these skeletons, all of them coming on the roads. But here everything is human. Dharamasthala”
We then conducted a reverse image search and found the image on the lemonde.fr website in an article.
We also found it on leparisien.fr in the year 2021.
According to the report, a team of researchers led by Inrap, these skeletons found in Rennes belong to soldiers who fought the Breton army in 1491.
We also found the image in a journal.
The study mentions: The skeletons likely belong to soldiers from the two enemy armies who fought during a major event of Breton history: the siege of Rennes in 1491, which ended by the wedding of the Duchess of Brittany with the King of France and signaled the end of the independence of the region.
Conclusion: Unrelated, old image from France goes as recent as Dharmasthala, associated with a mass burial that came to light. The viral claim is misleading.
