A photo of a woman with scars on her face was shared thousands of times in Twitter and Facebook posts that claim she survived a classroom bombing that killed dozens in Afghanistan's capital Kabul in September 2022. The photo, however, has been shared with false context. It was originally published in April 2016 and shows a woman who was seriously wounded in a suicide attack on TV workers in Kabul that year.

The photo has gained more than 3,500 retweets since it was posted on Twitter on October 2, 2022.

Its caption reads: "This is the face of Hazara Shia persecution. This young lady survived yesterday's bombing of an educational center in Kabul, but lost most of her friends and classmates.

"Her face won't make it to magazine covers in the West because she is not Malala. #StopHazaraGenocide".

Screenshot of the false post, taken on October 11, 2022

On September 30, a suicide attacker blew himself up in a Kabul study hall as hundreds of people were taking tests in preparation for university entrance exams in the city's Dasht-e-Barchi area.

The western neighbourhood is a predominantly Shiite Muslim enclave and home to the minority Hazara community -- a historically persecuted group that has been targeted in some of Afghanistan's most brutal attacks in recent years.

A day after the attack, dozens of Hazara women defied a Taliban ban on rallies to protest against the "genocide" of their minority community, AFP reported.

The photo circulated alongside a similar claim on Twitter ...

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