Photos of 24 April, 2011

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Photos of 24 April, 2011

1-A relative mourns over the body of 14-year-old Luiza Paula da Silveira Machado during her funeral at the Jardim da Saudade cemetary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Families began burying 12 children gunned down in the halls of their elementary school on Thursday, April 7.

2- Japanese search a school gymnasium for family albums and other belongings recovered from the area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

3- Buddhist monks gather at a burial site one month after the earthquake and tsunami struck in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

4- A barn is submerged in rising waters as the Red River rose to a near record crest in Fargo, North Dakota.

5-A soldier loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara smokes during fighting against forces loyal to his rival claimant to power Laurent Gbagbo, in Abidjan. Gbagbo was subsequently detained.

6- A young boy carries a container full of dust on his shoulder at a laterite brick mine in Ratnagiri district south of Mumbai, India.

7- The charred hand of a pro-Gaddafi fighter lies near the site where Libyan rebel fighters bury a man in a communal grave near Abdabiyah.

8- An injured anti-government protester looks on after being treated in a field hospital during clashes in Sana'a, Yemen.

9- Family members mourn the deaths of loved ones during a mass funeral in Kassenuma, Miyagi prefecture. Ten wooden coffins were laid in the ground in a hastily prepared cemetery as the community began burying victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

10- A student sits alone before a ceremony at Ashinome kindergarten in Kessenuma, Japan.

11- A villager wades through the floodwaters with his pigs in Surat Thani province, south of Bangkok, where severe flooding and mudslides have killed 21 people and stranded thousands.

12- A group Falmouth firefighters ski down a slope on their way to the starting line before competing in the 21st Annual Firefighter's Fundraising Race at the Sunday River ski resort in Newry, Maine.

13- Rebel fighters make the victory sign in front of a burning vehicle belonging to forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi after an air strike by coalition forces along a road between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah.

14- This photo was taken during an organized trip by the Libyan authorities of men watching women supporters of Moammar Gadhafi in Ban-Waled.

15- Tayo Kitamura kneels in the street to caress and talk to the wrapped body of her mother Kuniko Kitamura after Japanese firemen discovered the dead woman inside the ruins of her home in Onagawa, northeastern Japan.

16- Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers record the status of instruments in a control room at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

17- A miner climbs on excavated rocks after a giant drill broke through at the final section of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel, Switzerland.

18- A pelican stands by people on a bench in a park in Essen, Germany.

19- Cars and airplanes rest among debris from the tsunami at Sendai Airport in northeastern Japan.

20- An emergency worker cycles past debris in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.

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