The images were instead taken in 2017, after the collapse of the bridge linking San-Pedro to Grand-Bébéby in Ivory Coast.
This Facebook post purporting to show a section of the San Pedro Bridge collapsed in June 2024 is MISSING CONTEXT.
The post, published on June 16, 2024, reads: “San Pedro, Ivory Coast: Torrential rains. The bridge connecting San Pedro to Baba has fallen…Let’s look at the thickness of the bridge together…It looks like a pancake hummm. It happened today! Yako.” The text is accompanied by three photos showing different angles of a collapsed bridge, with a group of people observing this phenomenon.
PesaCheck has reviewed this post and found it to be MISSING CONTEXT.
A search with Google Lens with one of the images in the post being verified established that the photo was used in this article posted online on June 14, 2017 with the caption, “Tuesday June 13, 2017, a bridge connecting San -Pedro, the second Ivorian city, in Grand-Bébéby collapsed following heavy rain which fell on this locality in the south-west of Ivory Coast.
The same information was reported here, here, here and here. In addition, the video of the 2017 incident, titled: “Collapse of the bridge on the San Pedro – Baba axis” is available here.
A Google search with the keywords “The San Pedro – Baba Bridge falls” revealed that the Ministry of Equipment and Road Maintenance formally denied this assertion, stating, among other things, that “the images widely distributed are obsolete and date from the year 2017. To date, the Baba bridge does not suffer from any technical fault, as evidenced by the images taken on the morning of Monday June 17, 2024…”.
As a reminder, torrential rains fell on the Abidjan district on Thursday June 13, 2024, raising water levels and causing landslides in certain municipalities. These rains affected 227 people, five of whom died, according to the provisional results of the competent authorities. The claim we are verifying was shared in this context.
PesaCheck examined a Facebook post purporting to show a section of the San Pedro Bridge in Ivory Coast expected to collapse in 2024 and found it to fall under MISSING CONTEXT.
