Robert Mugabe, the country's leader for more than three decades, was put under house arrest, and he wasn't the only government figure to be swept up in the military's action.

The Finance Minister, Ignatius Chombo, had also been detained, a government source told the Reuters news agency.

And it's been reported that one Zimbabwean MP told al-Jazeera that $10m (£7.5m) had been recovered from Mr Chombo's house.

This claim of a vast stash of cash in the home a politician in poverty-stricken Zimbabwe sparked anger in some corners of the online press, but it also led to the use of incorrect photos.

While we do not have confirmation of whether the money was found at the home of Mr Chombo, the suitcases displayed in the Zimbabwe Today post definitely weren't.

That photo was taken after a police raid in Brazil earlier this year, as reported by Bloomberg.

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Some Twitter users found the incident quite amusing.

A second pile of money also featured in some of the news reporting of the raid, but that wasn't in Zimbabwe either.

The same photo appeared in a CNN story from April about a discovery made by an anti-corruption unit in Nigeria.

There was also a case of mistaken identity after one user wrongly identified Mr Chombo. The following photo isn't Mr Chombo, it's the former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, in 2011.

Meanwhile, the British embassy in Harare was also flagging up "fake news" having noticed an image of a letter purportedly from the UK Border Agency circulating on some Zimbabwean WhatsApp groups.

Despite containing spelling errors and inappropriate language for an official document, it has still been widely shared.

 

End of Twitter post by @UKinZimbabwe

 The British High Commission in Zimbabwe says this letter is "fake news" and should be ignored