“Photo of a girl who saw the Hiroshima nuclear bomb blast in Japan in 1945”
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FACTLY rated thisMISLEADING
What FACTLY found
This picture was captured by a Swedish photographer named Christer Strömholm in 1963. This photo is uploaded on his official website with the caption, The Blind Girl- Hiroshima 1963. It is therefore not possible that she could have witnessed the nuclear blast in 1945
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In short
This claim spread on social media. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 14 December 2022. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/Cl86k_9Sved/
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