Twitter went mad,as woman wrote about her gap year

Actress Louise Linton at a Grey Goose event on July 16, 2014 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

People have taken to social media to poke holes in a Scottish woman's terrifying account of fleeing armed rebels in Zambia.

Scottish actress Louise Linton wrote a memoir, "In Congo's Shadow," about her gap year spent "helping some of the world's poorest people."

Within three months of arriving at Lake Tanganyika she was forced to hide from armed rebels from the "Hutu-Tutsi conflict in neighbouring Congo." - she revealed.

An extract from the her death-defying account was published in the Daily Telegraph but people have taken to Twitter to say the story just doesn't quite add up.

One problem is that the Hutu-Tutsi conflict mainly took place in Rwanda - sparking the hashtag #LintonLies.