21/03/2026

SATURDAY | MAR 21, 2026

PICTURE GALLERY 17

RAILWAY ROVERS ... Passengers sit on a train at the Tongi Railway Station in Gazipur, Bangladesh as they make their way home to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival. – REUTERSPIC

PIOUS PROCESSION ... Hindu devotees take part in a Melasti ceremony prayer at a beach in Denpasar on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. – AFPPIC

PUBLIC PROTEST ... Activists hold signs and shout slogans during a rally against the United States’ demand for South Korea to deploy troops to the Strait of Hormuz, outside the US embassy in Seoul. – REUTERSPIC

t as Malaysians begin a grand exodus from the city to return to their hometowns for Hari Raya Aidilfitri. –

BIG BULLET ... US military personnel handling munitions removed from a US Air Force B-1 Lancer bomber at the RAF Fairford Base in southwest England. – AFPIC

RUBBLE AND RUIN ... The aftermath of an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs. – AFPPIC