FACT CHECK: Image Showing Soldiers In Caskets Is From 2005

An image shared on X claims to show Ugandan troops in caskets in 2025 after deploying to South Sudan.

Over 500 updf soldiers were killed in South Sudan after their reckless deployment. No one anywhere will report about this!🥺 pic.twitter.com/n4V3xBmnoN

— Zad (@IamtheZad) March 27, 2025

Verdict: False

The image is from 2005.

Fact Check:

Social media users are claiming to show Ugandan troops in caskets. One user wrote, “Over 500 updf soldiers were killed in South Sudan after their reckless deployment. No one anywhere will report about this!”

Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found that the image is from 2005, not 2025. The image was published by Getty Images and shows the bodies of a Ugandan presidential helicopter crew. (RELATED: Has Trump Ordered The Keystone Pipeline To’ Transport Only American Oil?’)

“UPDF soldiers stand to attention in front of coffins carrying the bodies of Ugandan presidential helicopter crew 10 August 2005 at Entebbe Air Base, that perished in a crash with the late former first Vice President of Sudan, John Garang on July 30. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni warned local dailies, during a funeral service at Kololo Airstrip, from carrying alarmist stories that speculate highly on theories that the crash was by design and not accidental,” reads the image description from Getty Images.

South Sudan has seen Ugandan troops deployed to the country, with South Sudan’s vice president saying that the presence of these troops violates a United Nations arms embargo, according to Bloomberg.