Pictures of the day: October 2, 2017

13 photos from events around the world

Artists dressed as Hindu gods Rama and Laxman act as fireworks explode during Vijaya Dashmi, or Dussehra festival celebrations in Chandigarh, India. PHOTO: REUTERS

Artists dressed as Hindu gods Rama and Laxman act as fireworks explode during Vijaya Dashmi, or Dussehra festival celebrations in Chandigarh, India. PHOTO: REUTERS


A man uses his mobile phone to take photographs of a burning effigy of demon King Ravana during Vijaya Dashmi, or Dussehra festival celebrations, in Ahmedabad, India. PHOTO: REUTERS


Shia Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) run and cover themselves from a bomb attack in outside of Hawija, Iraq. PHOTO: REUTERS


An aerial view shows the territory of a military base following recent massive explosions at ammunition depots in the Vynnytsya region, Ukraine. PHOTO: REUTERS


People splash water on a buffalo to prepare it for sacrifice during "Dashain", Hinduism's biggest religious festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal. PHOTO: REUTERS


An aerial view shows a combine harvesting wheat in a field of the Iskra farm outside the Siberian village of Kulun, the Uzhursky district of Krasnoyarsk region, Russia. PHOTO: REUTERS


People take photos of giant pandas born in 2017, during a public appearance, at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. PHOTO: REUTERS



Men use bamboo ladders to open doors to burial chambers near Rantepao, North Toraja, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. PHOTO: REUTERS


Workers are reflected on a mirror as they work inside a collapsed house, after an earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico. PHOTO: REUTERS


Bangladeshi men help Rohingya Muslim refugees to disembark from a boat on the Bangladeshi shoreline of the Naf river after crossing the border from Myanmar in Teknaf. PHOTO: AFP


People practise yoga at the aquarium of Dubai Mall in the United Arab Emirate. PHOTO: AFP


Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. PHOTO: AFP


The British Royal Air Force's (RAF) aerobatic team, the "Red Arrows", performs aerial manoeuvres during an airshow in Kuwait City. PHOTO: AFP


A student memorises the Quran at a madrassa in Murree, Pakistan. PHOTO: REUTERS
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