Week in pictures: 1 - 7 May 2021 - BBC News

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Soldiers and rescue workers attend the scene of a collapsed metro overpass in Mexico City. The elevated track on Line 12 fell onto a road, killing dozens of people.

LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

Medical staff keep watch while preparing to vaccinate people from the Klong Toey community at a school in Bangkok, Thailand.

CLODAGH KILCOYNE / REUTERS

The Sir Robert Bateson Memorial Society marching band participates in a parade to mark 100 years since the creation of Northern Ireland, in Lisburn.

TEMILADE ADELAJA / REUTERS

Children play chess in Makoko, a slum in the Nigerian city of Lagos.

CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON / POOL VIA EPA

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron stand in front of Napoleon's tomb, in Paris's Les Invalides, during a ceremony to commemorate the bicentenary of the French Emperor's death. The military and political leader died in exile on the island of Saint Helena on 5 May 1821.

PRAKASH SINGH / AFP

People wait to replenish oxygen cylinders at a private refill centre in Delhi, India. Oxygen supplies remain low across the country, amid a devastating second wave of Covid-19.

NOEL CELIS / AFP

In Beijing, people visit the Great Wall during the five-day Labour Day holiday. According to official estimates, Chinese tourists made about 230 million domestic trips over the holiday period.

LUCY NICHOLSON / REUTERS

Immigrants are sworn in as US citizens at a naturalisation ceremony in Joshua Tree National Park, California.

NEIL HALL / EPA

Griff the dog waits by a polling station in London, as local elections took place across England, Scotland and Wales.

MOHAMMED ABED / AFP

A woman walks down some vibrantly coloured steps in Gaza City.