Best Photos of the Week: Airstrikes and Massive Mudslide

Montecito, California

Firefighters pull a mud-covered 14-year-old girl out of the ruins of a home in Montecito, where she had been trapped for hours after a massive mudslide. She was taken away on a stretcher.
Photograph: Kenneth Song/Santa Barbara News/Reuters

Montecito, California

A building uprooted by a massive mudslide is lodged in a tree. Most of the 15 deaths were believed to have occurred in Montecito, a wealthy enclave of about 9,000 people north-west of Los Angeles that is home to celebrities such as as Oprah Winfrey, Rob Lowe and Ellen DeGeneres.
Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP

Hamouria, Syria

A paramedic carries an injured child after reported airstrikes by Syrian and Russian forces in the rebel-held town of Hamouria.
Photograph: Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP/Getty Images

Hamouria, Syria

Sisters embrace amid the rubble after finding each other alive following an airstrike on Hamouria in rebel-held eastern Ghouta.
Photograph: Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP/Getty Images

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Rohingya refugees study the Qur’an at a school in the Balukhali camp. More than 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since last August, fleeing the violence in Rakhine state.
Photograph: Allison Joyce/Getty Images

Ukhia, Bangladesh

Rohingya refugee children carrying wood at the Kutupalong refugee camp.
Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images

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