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Fact Check: Picture of boy sleeping between 2 graves is FALSE!

The picture is actually from Saudi Arabia, clicked by Photographer Abdul Aziz al Otaibi

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Recently, an image of a boy covered in a blanket purportedly sleeping between graves is got viral on social media. In the viral picture, a claim has been made that the boy in the picture is from Syria lying between the graves of his parents.

The caption for the image viral on Facebook reads, “One of the most sad images of the world: A Syrian child sleeps between the graves of his mother and father.”

A reverse search for the image in the question proves otherwise. The picture is actually from Saudi Arabia, clicked by Photographer Abdul Aziz al Otaibi as part of his art project in 2014. The boy pictured was the photographer’s nephew.

The image went viral with the false claim 5 years back as well. “Look, it’s not true at all that my picture has anything to do with Syria .. I am really shocked how people have twisted my picture,” photographer Abdul Aziz al Otaibi said to Harald Doornbos for the latter’s blog in 2014.

“I love photography, … Every artist has ideas in his head. So I had the idea to make a project whereby I show in pictures how the love of a child for his parents is irreplaceable. This love cannot be substituted by anything or anybody else, even if the parents are dead.”

“I went to the outskirts of Yanbu, 250 kilometre away from Jeddah. I build two piles from stones that looked like graves. I asked the son of my sister to lie in between these artificial graves and cover him with a blanket. Of course, I would never ever put a child between two real graves,” he had added.

Here’s the archived version of the fake viral post.

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