An Emirates Airline flight is seen after it crash-landed at Dubai International Airport, the UAE yesterday. Three hundred passengers and crew miraculously escaped with their lives this morning when their Emirates jet crash-landed at Dubai airport and exploded. However, a firefighter died while fighting the blaze. The cause of the accident involving the Boeing 777 was not immediately clear. Photo: Reuters, AFP
An Emirates Airline flight is seen after it crash-landed at Dubai International Airport, the UAE yesterday. Three hundred passengers and crew miraculously escaped with their lives this morning when their Emirates jet crash-landed at Dubai airport and exploded. However, a firefighter died while fighting the blaze. The cause of the accident involving the Boeing 777 was not immediately clear. Photo: Reuters, AFP
Indian bystanders look at the wreckage of a partially collapsed bridge over the River Savitri in Raigad District some 100kms South of Mumbai, yesterday. Photo: AFP
Rescuers were searching for 20 people missing and feared dead after two buses plunged into the fast-flowing river in western India when the bridge collapsed in torrential monsoon rain, officials said. Two bodies have been recovered from the river since the collapse on late Tuesday. Photo: AFP
A woman and a child cross the ever busy Mirpur Road amid traffic even though there is a foot-over bridge nearby, not in picture. Pedestrians, crossing busy streets, often remain exposed to the constant danger of losing life or limbs, not only due to the reckless driving, but also for lack of public awareness. The photo was taken in front of Aarong in the capital's Lalmatia area. Photo: Prabir Das
Makeshift shop owners keep the furniture of their dismantled shops on the trees at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital every day, after they close their activities for the day, damaging the beauty of the park on one hand and harming the trees on the other. The photo was taken yesterday. Photo: Palash Khan
A stranded wild elephant wades through an inundated cropland at Barbaria village in Jamalpur. The elephant was separated from her herd in Assam and floated along the currents of the Brahmaputra river from Dhubri district into Bangladesh last month. A team from the Assam forest department came to the country yesterday
to bring her back home. The photo was taken on July 28. Photo: Star
