Muslims are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a festive holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
Families gathered for special prayers followed by feasts and holiday sweets starting Sunday after a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting. Muslims typically mark the holiday with family visits and outings, and children get new clothes.
Families also visit the graves of loved ones, and the suffering of Muslims in the Gaza Strip and other conflict zones was never far from people’s minds.
Muslim boys watch from a rooftop as others perform an Eid al-Fitr prayer on road marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Bankra, Howrah district,
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