Photos: Overloaded modes of Transportation
March 15, 2013
A Palestinian family falls from a donkey cart after they crossed a breach on the border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt January 27, 2008. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem ( PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL-EGYPT/ )
An Indian man carries plastic balls on his bicycle in the northern Indian city Lucknow February 16, 2006. REUTERS/Pawan Kumar ( INDIA )
A riverboat loaded with empty boxes pulls out from the port of Manaus in the Amazonas March 13, 2007. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker ( BRAZIL MANAUS )
Bangladeshi laborers pull a cart of used containers to the market in Dhaka April 26, 2007. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman ( BANGLADESH/ )
People walk past the fuselage of a Boeing 737 parked on a road in Mumbai May 3, 2007. The trailer carrying the fuselage got stuck on a narrow road in Mumbai while being taken to New Delhi. REUTERS/Arko Datta ( INDIA/ )
The Emmaus church is transported on a special trailer, after leaving the eastern German village of Heuersdorf October 25, 2007. The church, built in 1297, will be moved over 12 kilometers to the neighboring town of Borna, as Heuersdorf has to give way for the extension of an opencast lignite mine. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann ( GERMANY/ )
An overloaded truck carries bales of rice stalks near Rosso, as it heads for the capital Nouakchott, January 30, 2008. Picture taken January 30, 2008. REUTERS/Normand Blouin ( MAURITANIA/ )
People displaced by post-election violence push their belongings outside a temporary shelter as they leave Nairobi and head for their ancestral homelands, February 19, 2008. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra ( KENYA-CRISIS/ )
Uighur men ride their horse carts during a sandstorm as they deliver hay around the Paklamakan desert, some 100km (63 miles) east to Yecheng, in the region of Xinjiang April 5, 2008. REUTERS/Nir Elias ( CHINA-XINJIANG/ )
Residents ride on a pick-up truck that supplies milk and other items in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, September 2, 2009. REUTERS/Omar Faruk ( SOMALIA )
A recyclable materials collector stands in front of her overloaded tricycle on a main street in central Beijing March 12, 2010. REUTERS/David Gray ( CHINA )
North Koreans look at a Chinese boat for tourists on Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju July 27, 2010. REUTERS/Jacky Chen ( KOREA-NORTH/ )
A man rides a motorcycle carrying six children on their way back home from school at Greater Noida in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh September 10, 2010. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma ( INDIA/ )
A donkey collapses after being overloaded with election materials to be transported to a village unreachable by vehicles, in Panjshir province, north of Kabul September 17, 2010. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood ( AFGHANISTAN )
A man pushes an auto-rickshaw loaded with plastic balls to sell at a wholesale market in New Delhi November 10, 2011. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma ( INDIA/ )
People travel in a motorized rickshaw on a street in the Rae Bareli district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh January 17, 2012. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi ( INDIA/ )
Men use ropes to try and right a supply truck overloaded with wheat straw, used as animal feed, along a road in Dargai, in the Malakand district, about 165 km (100 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, April 13, 2012. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed ( PAKISTAN/ )
A man transports lanterns for decorations on his motorbike ahead of Vesak Day celebrations in Colombo May 4, 2012. The festival commemorates the birth and enlightenment of Buddha and his attainment of Nirvana. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte ( SRI LANKA )
A man transports ducks on a motorcycle to a market in Nam Ha province, outside Hanoi May 31, 2012. REUTERS/Kham ( VIETNAM/ )
A man rides a tricycle loaded with lounge chairs along a road in Beijing June 5, 2012. REUTERS/David Gray ( CHINA-AUTOINSURANCE/ )
A traffic jam, one of five key issues Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi outlined in his Al Nhada (Renaissance) project, is pictured in old Cairo October 8, 2012, a day after his 100th day in power. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh ( EGYPT-PRESIDENT/ )
An overcrowded train carrying Muslims crosses a bridge after the final prayer ceremony of Bishwa Ijtema in Tongi, on the outskirts of Dhaka, January 13, 2013. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj ( BANGLADESH/ )
A man carries a sofa on his motorcycle on a highway near Kenya's capital Nairobi March 10, 2013. REUTERS/Marko Djurica ( KENYA/ )
A woman cycles as she carries baskets to sell in a market near Lapdaung mountain in Sarlingyi township, March 13, 2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun ( MYANMAR/ )
A Chinese man transfers recyclable rubbish which he collects from streets with a three-wheeled flat-bed bicycle in Beijing June 28, 2002. REUTERS/China Photo ( CHINA )
An enterprising Chinese man pulls a bicycle cart packed high with bags of recyclable plastic containers in Shanghai July 25, 2002. The man sells each kilogram (2.2 pounds) of plastic for 0.08 yuan ($.01) to a nearby depot. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV ( CHINA )
Chinese farmers transport harvested barley at a village in central Shanxi province in this picture taken September 21, 2004. REUTERS/China Photos ( CHINA )
An overcrowded train leaves Dhaka's Airport rail station ahead of the Muslim festival Eid-al-Adha December 20, 2007. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman ( ( BANGLADESH )
A migrant worker pulls a cart loaded with discarded plastic foam for recycling in Nanjing, Jiangsu province February 7, 2009.REUTERS/Sean Yong ( CHINA/ )
A Moroccan woman sells empty bottles for people arriving from and traveling to Morocco next to the border area which separates Spain and its Maghreb neighbor in Spain's North African enclave of Melilla August 16, 2010. REUTERS/Jon Nazca ( MOROCCO-SPAIN/ )
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