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Week in Pictures: From Pakistan crash to Aceh quake
A photo round-up of some of the week’s key events, from a plane crash in Pakistan to an earthquake in Indonesia.
An Iraqi boy holds his sister's hand as they wait to receive aid outside a distribution point run by United Nations agencies at Zahra district, east of Mosul. [Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters]
Published On 9 Dec 2016
9 Dec 2016
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People gather at an event to mark the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's birthday at Bhumibol Bridge over Chao Phraya river in Bangkok. [Jorge Silva/Reuters]
An elderly woman is assisted to a temporary shelter for people affected by Wednesday's earthquake in Ulim, Aceh province, Indonesia. More than 100 people were killed in the quake that hit the northeast of the province on Sumatra before dawn on Wednesday. [Binsar Bakkara/AP]
Men ride a motorcycle as they flee deeper into the remaining rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria. [Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters]
Lawmakers and members of opposition parties hold cards during a rally demanding the impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. Parliament this week did indeed vote to impeach her. [Ahn Young-joon/AP]
Rescue workers survey the wreckage of a plane that crashed near the village of Saddha Batolni, near Abbottabad, Pakistan. Forty-eight people died in the air crash, including singer-turned-preacher Junaid Jamshed. [Faisal Mahmood/Reuters]
Saida Ahmad Baghili, 18, who has been affected by severe malnutrition, rests on a bed at the al-Thawra hospital in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah. Images of Saida's emaciated body shocked the world and turned a spotlight on the worsening humanitarian crisis across Yemen. [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]
Supporters of India's popular politician and former film actress Jayaram Jayalalithaa react as they watch the casket carrying her body pass in a funeral procession in Chennai, India. Jayalalithaa, chief minister of Tamil Nadu state, died at the age of 68 after a prolonged illness. [Aijaz Rahi/AP]
Fireworks explode next to riot police during clashes after an anniversary rally marking the 2008 police shooting of 15-year-old student Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Athens, Greece. [Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]
Mohsena Begum, a Rohingya who escaped to Bangladesh from Myanmar, holds her child and sits at the entrance of a room of an unregistered refugee camp in Teknaf, near Cox's Bazar, a southern coastal district 296km (183 miles) south of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [A.M. Ahad/AP]