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Kathmandu, Nepal
Symbolic funerals are conducted for missing relatives using kush grass effigies, in accordance with Nepali Hindu rites.

Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images

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Minab, Iran
A man who lost his son in February’s strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school, which killed 156 people, mourns in front of pictures of those who died.

Photograph: Majid Asgaripour/Reuters

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