A Kenyan Facebook page with more than 500,000 followers shared a TikTok video on October 12, 2022, showing at least three descending paratroopers losing control of their parachutes while attempting to land in a stadium filled with people.
One of the skydivers crashes into the crowd, another tumbles into a row of mobile toilets while a third gets snagged on the stadium roof before dropping below into the seating area.
“Uganda’s paratroopers of the Ugandan People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) perform badly during Independence celebrations (sic),” reads the Facebook post, which has since been deleted but was archived here.
Similar claims were published on Twitter, TikTok and online in Nigeria (see here and here).
Uganda commemorated 60 years of independence from British rule on October 9, 2022. Celebrations took place at Kololo Independence Grounds in the capital Kampala.
During the event, the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) carried out drills, including a demonstration by the military's paratroopers.
But the failed parachute landing did not happen in Uganda.
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