Eid al-Adha celebrations – in pictures

Thousands of pilgrims arrive to throw pebbles at pillars during the 'Jamarat' ritual, the stoning of Satan, in Mina near the holy city of Mecca Photograph: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images

Pilgrims during the Jamarat ritual in Mina. Pilgrims pelt pillars symbolising the devil with pebbles to show their defiance on the third day of the hajj Photograph: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images

Pilgrims throw pebbles at the pillars in Mina Photograph: Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images

A woman attends Eid al-Adha celebrations in Banda Aceh, Indonesia Photograph: Hotli Simanjuntak /EPA

Children after prayers at the Blue Mosque in Taguig city, east of Manila in the Philippines Photograph: Bullit Marquez/AP

Crowds of people board the roofs of trains in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for a risky ride to their home villages. Millions of city dwellers return home for Eid al-Adha Photograph: Abir Abdullah/EPA

A Palestinian boy is reflected in a pool of cattle blood after watching the slaughter of a cow for the Eid al-Adha feast in the east of Gaza City Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA

A boy looks at adults praying in a central square in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek Photograph: Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP/Getty Images

Men drag home a sheep bought at an outdoor livestock market in Bishkek Photograph: Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP/Getty Images

A Palestinian man visits the graves of relatives at a cemetery in the West Bank city of Ramallah on the first day of Eid al-Adha Photograph: Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty Images

Muslims pray outside the Cathedral Mosque in Moscow Photograph: Dzhavakhadze Zurab/ITAR-TASS Photo/Corbis

An Afghan police officer stands guard during prayers at the Shah-e Do Shamshira mosque in Kabul Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images