A Chinese woman in Mombasa was attacked and killed after showing flu-like symptoms and refusing to go to hospital.
The article was published on March 17, and states that a 32-year-old Chinese woman was stoned to death in Nyali area of Mombasa County after residents noticed her coughing and having difficulty in breathing while she was at a supermarket in the area., According to the article, the woman was a resident of Nyali, having moved there after arriving from China in November 2019. She apparently started coughing, and had trouble breathing, both signs of COVID-19, when the attendants at the supermarket apparently raised the alarm., A group of residents in the area asked the woman to get tested for COVID-19 at the Coast General Hospital but she refused, the article states, after which she was stoned to death., The same story was published by Kenya Today and the Peoples Republic., However, the story has not been reported on by mainstream media outlets, and there is no report on this from the Chinese Embassy in Kenya either., There is no report of this incident at the Nyali Police Station, where the incident is alleged to have happened., The image published alongside the article shows three men carrying a woman with bruises on her arm into an ambulance., However, a Google reverse image search shows that the image was taken during the 2013 terrorist attack that happened at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, and not in Nyali as the article claims., According to a post by Edmonton Journal, the photo was taken by Sayyid Azim of the Associated Press (AP). The photo’s caption does not specify the woman’s nationality. It states that the woman’s body is being removed from a car outside the Westgate Mall by members of the Kenya Red Cross on Saturday, September 21., A man in Kwale County was attacked and killed by a mob on March 19 after he was accused of having COVID-19. According to Msambweni Sub-County Commander Nehemiah Bitok, a group of youth took advantage of the victim, who was drunk, and accused him of being a carrier of COVID-19 before they beat him to death., PesaCheck has looked into the claim that a Chinese woman was stoned to death in Mombasa for showing symptoms of COVID-19 and finds it to be FALSE., This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms., By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds., Have you spotted what you think is fake news or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content., This fact-check was written by Fact-Checker Linda Ngari. It was edited by PesaCheck Deputy Editor Ann Ngengere and was approved for publication by PesaCheck Managing Editor Eric Mugendi., PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visit pesacheck.org., PesaCheck is a joint initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with additional funding support from the International Budget Partnership (Kenya) and Twaweza, in partnership with a coalition of local media organisations, and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)., Written by, Written by
HOAX: Reports that a Chinese woman was killed in Mombasa over COVID-19 fears are false