July 30 Photo Brief: Propane plant explodes, Ani-Con eyes Bradley Manning, mass funeral for Italian bus crash victims, face transplant in Poland
Propane plant explodes in Florida, Bradley Manning, mass funeral for Italian bus crash victims, face transplant in Poland, Ani-Com eyes in Hong Kong, and more in today’s daily brief.
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- A leopard skin burns during an official burning of wildlife contraband, including tiger and leopard skins and bones, by forest officials in Mumbai. The tiger Indias national animal is disappearing from the country because of rampant poaching and widespread habitat destruction. There are an estimated 1,800 wild tigers in India today, down from approximately 100,000 in 1900. (Indranil Mukherjee/Getty Images)
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- Tavares Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Hosterman walks among the remains of exploded propane cylinders, littering the storage yard of a propane plant, after massive explosions overnight in the plant’s yard, in Tavares, Florida. Dozens of explosions rocked a propane tank servicing plant in central Florida, northwest of Orlando, late on Monday, injuring seven workers, at least three critically, and prompting the evacuation of nearby homes, authorities said. (David Manning/Reuters)
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- Shi’ite people place copies of the Koran on their heads during a ceremony marking the death anniversary of Imam Ali at his shrine in the holy city of Najaf, about 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad. Imam Ali, the son-in-law of Prophet Mohammad, was wounded in the head during a battle and died after two days in 661 AD in Najaf. (Ahmad Mousa/Reuters)
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- A young comic and animation cartoon fan taking part in cosplay (costume play) at the 15th Ani-Com and Games Fair in Hong Kong. The annual extravaganza for cosplay, comics and computer games runs until July 30 and expects to attract over 700,000 visitors from Hong Kong, mainland China and overseas. (Laurent Fievet/Getty Images)
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- A young comic and animation cartoon fan taking part in cosplay (costume play) at the 15th Ani-Com and Games Fair in Hong Kong. The annual extravaganza for cosplay, comics and computer games runs until July 30 and expects to attract over 700,000 visitors from Hong Kong, mainland China and overseas. (Laurent Fievet/Getty Images)
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- Athletes compete during the swimming events on day ten of the 15th FINA World Championships at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain. (Adam Pretty/Getty Images)
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- Sailboats compete in the 32th edition of the Copa del Rey regatta in Palma de Mallorca. (Jaime Reina/Getty Images)
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- Relatives mourn victims of a bus crash in Moterusciello, southern Italy, during a mass funeral for the 38 people killed in Italy when a coach plunged off a viaduct near Naples. The coach, carrying 48 people including children, rammed several cars after failing to break on a bend, smashing through a crash barrier and off the viaduct to plunge 30 metres (98 feet) down. Prosecutors have launched an investigation into possible manslaughter over the accident, the worst such crash in western Europe in the last decade. (Carlo Hermann/Getty Images)
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- Coffins are carried by relatives after a mass funeral for the 38 people killed in Italy when a coach plunged off a viaduct near Naples in Moteruscello, southern Italy. The coach, carrying 48 people including children, rammed several cars after failing to break on a bend, smashing through a crash barrier and off the viaduct to plunge 30 metres (98 feet) down. Prosecutors have launched an investigation into possible manslaughter over the accident, the worst such crash in western Europe in the last decade. (Alberto Pizzoli/Getty Images)
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- Flood-affected villagers gather as an Indian Army HAL Chetak helicopter hovers during a mission along the overflowing Betwa river in the Jhansi region. Army personnel were moved in to rescue villagers stranded due to floods in Betwa River in Jhansi region, according to a Ministry of Defence press release. (Getty Images)
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- U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (R) arrives at the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning could learn on Tuesday whether he will face life in prison without parole when a judge renders her verdict on charges that he aided the enemy when he released 700,000 classified documents to the website WikiLeaks. (Gary Cameron/Reuters)
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- A face transplant patient only identified as Grzegorz, 33, attends a media conference at a hospital in Gliwice. He is leaving hospital two in a half months after successfully undergoing Poland’s first face transplant. The man lost a large part of his face after an accident involving an industrial stone cutter. (Dawid Chalimoniuk/Reuters)
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- An Afghan women beggar sits as a man rests in the main mosque during the month of Ramadan in Herat. Over a third of Afghans are living in abject poverty, as those in power are more concerned about addressing their vested interests rather than the basic needs of the population, a UN report said. (Aref Karimi/Getty Images)
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- Peruvian Army special forces march during a traditional military parade in Lima commemorating the country’s 192nd independence anniversary. (Cris Bouroncle/Getty Images)
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- Members of the public, walk past a street entertainer on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. The city is preparing ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival which runs from the 2 -26 August and is one of the largest arts festivals in the world, dating back to 1947. The festival attracts thousands of performers from across the world to showcase their acts in Scotland’s capital. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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- Fire trucks spray water in celebration over a vintage DC-3 plane that once participated n the Berlin Airlift and will be part of the Candy Bomber program upon its arrival at Schoenefeld Airport near Berlin in Schoenefeld, Germany. The original Candy Bomber, in German called the Rosinenbomber, also took part in the Berlin Airlift and more recently ferried tourists over Berlin until it crash-landed three years ago. Since then a fund-raising association managed to buy the DC-3 that arrived today from Conventry and will marry it with the damaged plane in order to create a new plane that will be certifiable to carry passengers. The Candy Bomber earned its name when U.S. Air Force pilot Gail Halverson dropped candy from his DC-3 plane to children of Berlin during the Cold War-era Berlin Airlift, when Allied planes supplied the city of Berlin with food, fuel and other necessities during the Soviet Blockade of the city in 1948-49. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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- A Thai soldier in white biohazard suit takes part in a clean-up operation at Ao Prao Beach on Koh Samet, Rayong. Crude oil that leaked from a pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand over the weekend has reached a Thai tourist resort, pipeline operator PTT Global Chemical Pcl said on Monday. Around 50,000 litres of crude oil poured into the sea on Saturday around 20 km (12 miles) off the coast of Rayong, southeast of the capital Bangkok. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
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- Thai soldiers in white biohazard suits take part in a clean-up operation at Ao Prao Beach on Koh Samet, Rayong. Crude oil that leaked from a pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand over the weekend has reached a Thai tourist resort, pipeline operator PTT Global Chemical Pcl said on Monday. Around 50,000 litres of crude oil poured into the sea on Saturday around 20 km (12 miles) off the coast of Rayong, southeast of the capital Bangkok. (Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)
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- A boy’s mother puts the finishing touches to his uniform ahead of the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church’s annual Thanksgiving service in the Elephant And Castle area of south London, England. The 28th annual adoption Thanksgiving service saw attendees from across the world including Nigeria, USA and Germany. The service was attended by the leader of the Church, His Most Eminence Baba Aladura. The indigenous African initiated Christian church was founded in Nigeria in 1925 and has an estimated 5 million members that worship in around 1,500 houses of prayer worldwide. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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