A photo of a man lying motionless on the floor has been shared repeatedly in Facebook posts that falsely claimed he died in southeastern Bangladesh while performing the Muslim call to prayer. A family member of the deceased and a local police spokesman told AFP that he was actually from Muzaffargarh, a town in the Pakistani state of Punjab.
"A muazzin named Saeed Ullah died while calling for prayers in a mosque at Sonagazi of Feni. May Allah accept his death as a martyr, Ameen," read the Bengali-language caption alongside a Facebook It shows a photo of a motionless man lying on the floor of a room while clutching a microphone stand.However, AFP traced the photo to an incident in a town in Pakistan's most populous state, Punjab.
Wasim Gopang, public relations officer for the Muzaffargarh police department, told AFP that the man in the photo died from electrocution at a mosque in the town.The post's caption identified the person as Maulana Masood Azhar, a man who died from electrocution while announcing prayers at a mosque. The caption also mentioned that Masood was the son of Maulana Muhammad Asgar Qureshi, a teacher at a local Islamic seminary called Jamia Anwarul Koran.
Below is a screenshot comparison of the photo shared in the false post and photos published by a Pakistan-based user :The Pakistani man who shared the image, Hafeez Malik, told AFP that the person pictured was Maulana Masood Azhar from Ghazi Ghat village in Muzaffargarh. "He was our neighbour. This brother died due to electrocution during Asr prayer in a local mosque," Malik said.An AFP journalist also reached out to Najaf Ali Abbas Qureshi, who said the man in the photo was his cousin and had been working as an imam at a Muzaffargarh mosque when he was electrocuted.https://www.youtube.com/embed/bHNimjTpxd8
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