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People queue at the airport in Marsh Harbour hoping to leave the Bahamas, after the archipelago was hammered by Hurricane Dorian. IMAGES
President Donald Trump arrives in hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico, hoping to underscore government recovery efforts and repair damage done by his contentious early response to the crisis. IMAGES
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The crowd went wild as a pyrotechnic bull roared through the Mexican town of Tultepec on Wednesday, spraying a cascade of sparks into dancing revelers taking part in the San Juan de Dios festival. San Juan de Dios is the patron saint of fireworks makers, and Mexicans celebrate his memory with a huge fireworks festival running from March 8 to March 11. Festival goers naturally set off a huge display of all sorts of fireworks, large and small, but one of the most popular sorts are called toritos, which are huge bull-shaped contraptions on wheels, designed to be pulled through the streets while fireworks and sparks jet off and into the crowd. A fireworks explosion in nearby Mexico City had killed 61 people in 1988, and so a ban was placed on such explosives in the city and its surrounding urban areas - including Tultepec. Tultepec was one of Mexico's major fireworks-making locations and the area suffered economically from the prohibition. However, the Mexican National Pyrotechnic Festival was started in 1989 in an effort to draw back tourism to the municipality of Tultepec. So far, it looks like it could be working.
People take food, water and other goods from a looted store in Mexico's Acapulco after Hurricane Otis caused at least 27 deaths and major damage in the resort city. Otis crashed into Acapulco as a scale-topping category 5 storm, shattering windows, uprooting trees and largely cutting off communications and road links with the region. Hurricanes hit Mexico every year on both its Pacific and Atlantic coasts, usually between May and November, though few make landfall as a Category 5. IMAGES
Images of the Mbankolo district, on the north-western outskirts of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, following the collapse of a section of a hillside covered in precariously built houses. The landslide was caused by torrential rain on the evening of 8 October. At least 27 people have been killed in the collapse. IMAGES
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