24 hours in pictures, 28 June 2021

Our Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world to bring you a visual snapshot of the day's events.

A woman uses her mobile phone at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) fair in Barcelona on June 28, 2021. (Photo by Pau BARRENA / AFP)

News in Pictures

: Marie Geldenhuys (79) can be seen receiving her Covid-19 vaccination shot at the Dischem vaccination site in Centurion mall, 28 June 2021, Centurion. Picture: Jacques Nelles

: Industria Discount Liquors at Industria West in Johannesburg closed on 28 June 2021 after adjusted level 4 as the rising number of Covid-19 infections increased. Picture: Nigel Sibanda

: Tshimoloho Group truck lost its cargo along Nasrec road after Riverlea in Johannesburg, 28 June 2021. No Injuries were reported. Picture:Nigel Sibanda

: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Governor of Edinburgh Castle, Major General Alastair Bruce of Crionaich (behind) attend the Ceremony of the Keys at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh on June 28, 2021. – The Queen is in Scotland for Royal Week where she will be undertaking a range of engagements celebrating community, innovation and history. (Photo by Chris Jackson / POOL / AFP)

: Marie Geldenhuys (79) can be seen at the Dischem vaccination site in Centurion mall to receive her vaccination shot, 28 June 2021, Centurion. Picture: Jacques Nelles

: COEUR D’ALENE, IDAHO – JUNE 27: Lionel Sanders comes down the chute to the finish during IRONMAN Coeur d’Alene on June 27, 2021 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Harry How/Getty Images for IRONMAN/AFP (Photo by Harry How / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

: A woman uses her mobile phone at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) fair in Barcelona on June 28, 2021. (Photo by Pau BARRENA / AFP)

: US player Sloane Stephens returns against Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova during their women’s singles first round match on the first day of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships at the The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on June 28, 2021. (Photo by Glyn KIRK / AFP)

: A soldier from the Indian government forces stands guard during a gun-battle started between suspected militants and Indian government forces at Malhoora on the outskirts of Srinagar on June 28, 2021. (Photo by TAUSEEF MUSTAFA / AFP)

: Team Lotto Soudal’s Caleb Ewan of Australia and Team Bora Hansgrohe’s Peter Sagan of Slovakia (rear C) fall behind (from L) Team Alpecin Fenix’ Tim Merlier of Belgium, Team Arkea – Samsic’s Nacer Bouhanni of France and Team Alpecin Fenix’ Jasper Philipsen of Belgium as they sprint to cross the finish line of the 3rd stage of the 108th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 182 km between Lorient and Pontivy, on June 28, 2021. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / POOL / AFP)

: Farmers clear weeds around marigold flower crop in a field on the outskirts of Bangalore on June 28, 2021. (Photo by Manjunath Kiran / AFP)

: The roof on centre court is opened ahead of the women’s singles first round match between US player Sloane Stephens and Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova on the first day of the 2021 Wimbledon Championships at the The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on June 28, 2021. (Photo by Glyn KIRK / AFP)

: Emergency service vehicles are seen inside a cordon set up around the site of a fire at Elephant and Castle in south London on June 28, 2021. – Some 100 firefighters were on Monday tackling a blaze at industrial units in south London as thick smoke billowed across the British capital. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP)

: A beekeeper checks the honey production in Naran valley, in Mansehra District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on June 28, 2021. (Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP)

: France fans cheer prior to the UEFA EURO 2020 round of 16 football match between France and Switzerland at the National Arena in Bucharest on June 28, 2021. (Photo by Mihai BARBU / AFP)

: People take photos of fireworks in the distance during an art performance being held at the Bird’s Nest national stadium to mark the upcoming 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party, in Beijing on June 28, 2021. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP)

: A reflected view of the facade of the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 28, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. – The death toll after the collapse of a Florida apartment tower rose to nine, officials said on June 27, 2021, with more than 150 people still missing and their weary families waiting nearly four days for information as to their fate.The outlook grew increasingly grim by the hour, however, as the slow rescue operation, involving workers sorting nonstop through the rubble in torrid heat and high humidity, carried on. (Photo by Giorgio VIERA / AFP)

: Tourists sunbathe at Magaluf Beach in Calvia, on the Balearic Island of Mallorca, on June 28, 2021. – British holidaymakers heading to the Balearic Islands will need to show a negative PCR test or proof of vaccination due to a rise in UK Covid infections, Spain said, reversing a free-entry policy. (Photo by JAIME REINA / AFP)

: Serb nationals light a flare as they take part in a ceremony marking the historic “Battle of Kosovo” at a memorial in Gazimestan, on the outskirts of Pristina on June 28, 2021. – The ceremony marks the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 when the Serbian army was defeated by the Ottoman Empire. (Photo by Armend NIMANI / AFP)

: A search dog named Oreo, a 2 yr. old female pomsky, owned by volunteer Moises Soffer, 36, from Mexico is seen outside on June 27, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. – It’s the fifth day, and rescuers have heard no human sounds from within the massive, smoking pile of twisted metal and concrete. Miami-Dade firefighters, their faces tight with exhaustion, tunnel piece by jagged piece into the debris, searching for any sign of the more than 150 people who remain missing after the 12-story beachside apartment building collapsed in the middle of a sweltering Florida summer night, its residents asleep inside. For the families of the missing, the progress is agonisingly slow, and their anger, frustration and grief is palpable. Rescuers say they understand the desperation. Moises Soffer, a volunteer with the Latin American Jewish organisation Cadena International, is helping with the search with his dog Oreo, a pomsky who at just under two years old is specially trained to find survivors. “She can go wherever she wants, into craves, voids where people normally don’t go, because of her weight she can go where there is instability,” says Soffer, 36, from Mexico. When it is too dangerous or the rubble is too unstable, he says, “we do tracking, she gives me a sense of direction with the leash.” “I know the families ask why we are not going faster,” says Maggie Castro, a paramedic with the Miami-Dade fire department. (Photo by Gianrigo MARLETTA / AFP)

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