Pictures of the day: October 6, 2016

We look at 13 pictur­es from events around the world

Young Afghan labourers, eleven year-old Aman (L) and nine year-old Shokor (R) sit alongside a road as they count their money after a day of work before they go home in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. PHOTO: AFP

Destruction in the village of Amatrice that was rattled by an earthquake on August 24, claiming nearly 300 lives. PHOTO: AFP

Somali school girls play football during lunch break at the Howlwadag Primary School in Howlwadag District, south of Mogadishu. PHOTO: AFP

A man throws a stone during a mass protest of the Fees Must Fall movement at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. PHOTO: AFP

South Korea cleaned up Thursday after Typhoon Chaba lashed its southern coast with powerful winds and heavy rains that triggered flash floods and left six people dead and four missing. PHOTO: AFP

People walk down the streets next to destroyed houses after Hurricane Matthew passes Jeremie, Haiti. PHOTO: REUTERS

People walk down the streets next to destroyed houses after Hurricane Matthew passes Jeremie, Haiti. PHOTO: REUTERS

Tourists walk in the sun on the Niederhorn mountain near Interlaken. PHOTO: REUTERS

Rapper Ichon shoots a music video at his apartment as his friend looks at her phone, seen through a glass window, in Montreuil, France. PHOTO: REUTERS

An apartment building is seen in the Les Courtillieres housing estate in Pantin, France. PHOTO: REUTERS

Pope Francis waves as he arrives to lead the general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican. PHOTO: REUTERS

Brent Scurry of Lake City, South Carolina, works to install window shutters at an ocean front home in anticipation of Hurricane Matthew in Garden City Beach, South Carolina, US. PHOTO: REUTERS

Afghan students from a religious school look on from a window of their school. PHOTO: REUTERS