Pictures of the day: April 5, 2017

We look at 13 pictures from events around the world

A worker paints the facade of the Calderon theatre in Madrid, Spain. PHOTO: REUTERS

A man walks past Dar Pomorza (Gift of Pomerania), a full-rigged sailing ship, now a museum, as thick fog covers the Port of Gdynia, Poland. PHOTO: REUTERS


A Group of men working on top of a marquee for a ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka. PHOTO: REUTERS


An Afghan policeman destroys poppies during a campaign against narcotics in Jalalabad province, Afghanistan. PHOTO: REUTERS


A worker paints the facade of the Calderon theatre in Madrid, Spain. PHOTO: REUTERS


An Iraqi cover his boy with sand from a sulfur pond at Hammam al-Alil city south of Mosul, Iraq. PHOTO: REUTERS


Hindu devotees gather to bathe in the Brahmaputra River aspart of a ritual to observe the Astami Tithi at Langalband, Narayanganj near Dhaka, Bangladesh. PHOTO: REUTERS



Rescue members recover a body in a house after flooding and mudslides caused by heavy rains leading several rivers to overflow, pushing sediment and rocks into buildings and roads, in Mocoa, Colombia. PHOTO: REUTERS


A man looks at cherry blossoms in almost full bloom in Tokyo, Japan. PHOTO: REUTERS


Men bury bodies in a graveyard after airstrikes in the rebel held besieged Douma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria. PHOTO: REUTERS


North Korean farmers work in a field as a section of the Great Wall is seen on the Chinese side of the Yalu River, north of the town of Sinuiju in North Korea and Dandong in China's Liaoning province. PHOTO: REUTERS


Pakistani fruit vendors try to control sunshades during high winds at a market in Rawalpindi. PHOTO: AFP


A relocated rhino charges a Nepalese forestry and technical team after being released as part of a relocation project in Chitwan National Park some of 250 Kilometre South of Kathmandu. PHOTO: AFP


Venezuela's opposition activists clash with riot police agents during a protest against Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas. PHOTO: AFP
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