Sara Duterte Carpio sarcastically confirms her death rumors.
Davao City Mayor and Presidential daughter Sara Duterte Carpio took social media and confirmed her own death in response to the fake news.
In her recent Instagram post, Sarah Duterte posted a screenshot of a fake news website. The Davao City Mayor sarcastically expressed her annoyance to a post that claimed she died from an illness.
The fake news site called Mega News 360 posted the news on Tuesday, February 21, 2017. The article said she was rushed to the hospital day after complaining of chest pain and died.
The fake news site even said that her brother, Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte confirmed her death on Twitter.
After the fake news circulated on social media, Inday Sarah immediately took to her social media accounts and shared that her funeral was not open to the public.
“Before she died she requested for a private wake for family members only,” she said in her post. “Please omit flowers and pray that she goes to heaven and not hell,” she wrote.
Some of the netizens who read the fake news noticed that there is something wrong about the news. The writer of the mistakenly used the word “Philippian” to refer to the Filipinos.
Some netizens said that whoever wrote the fake news it is a foreigner.
Read the partial text of the fake news:
Other social media users were quick to give their reactions on the video and lambasted the writer for the fake news.
“Bad people doing bad news are evil, sorry but it’s true, karma are going back to those bad intentions!!! be fair to everyone please,” netizen said.
On her Instagram account, Inday Sara sarcastically wrote:
“We regret to confirm the untimely demise of Inday Sara. It is truly sad for those who sincerely love her and a happy day for those who hate her guts. Before she died she requested for a private wake for family members only. Please omit flowers and pray that she goes to heaven and not hell. She will be buried alongside nothing in her prepaid memorial lot in Davao City. Thank you.”