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Amazing images reveal the overloaded world

Last updated on: May 21, 2013 07:04 IST

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Image: A vendor carries plastic balls for sale as he walks down the streets of Noida.
Photographs: Parivartan Sharma/Reuters

It's not just animals who earn their bread by carrying way too much weight on their back, human beings too face the daily struggle of transporting good and people.

Let's take a look at some stunning photos that capture our overloaded world.

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An overcrowded train leaves Dhaka's airport railway station.

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North Koreans on Yalu River near the town of Sinuiju.

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A man rides a camel loaded with fodder in Jammu.

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A delivery man peers out from behind the load of bamboo baskets he carries on his flat bed bicycle in a Beijing street.

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Garment workers in Phnom Penh ride a van home in Cambodia.

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A farmer drives a car transporting dried stalks in Guye, north China's Hebei Province.

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Photographs: Omar Faruk/Reuters

Residents ride on a pick-up truck that supplies milk and other items in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.

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A vendor pulls a cart loaded with various rattan chairs for sale on a street in Shanghai, China.

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Photographs: Ajay Verma/Reuters

A man transports used empty plastic cans on a horse cart to a junkyard at Panchkula in Haryana.

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A man uses a cycle rickshaw to transport the front portion of a supply truck in Ahmedabad.

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A collector pushes a cart of plastic materials for recycling, on a street in Qingdao, Shandong province, China.

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Commuters, including school boys, travel on a crowded bus at Khurja village in UP.

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Six men ride on a motorcycle after playing cricket in Noida.

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Photographs: Jitendra Prakash/Reuters

Farmers transport wheat crop on camels at Pipalgaon village on the outskirts of Allahabad.

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A bus is driven past a market in Maidan Shahr, capital of Wardak Province, Afghanistan.

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A woman pushes a cart loaded with paper cartons as a child sits on top on a street in Manila, the Philippines.

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Photographs: Sean Yong/Reuters

A worker pulls a cart loaded with discarded plastic foam for recycling in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China.

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Boys sit in the trunk of a car while travelling on a street in Karachi.

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A man yawns while riding on a donkey cart loaded with recyclable materials in Changzhi, Shanxi province, China.

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A woman carries styrofoam for recycling on her bicycle in Shanghai, China.

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Photographs: Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters

Bangladeshi labourers pull a cart of used containers to the market in Dhaka.

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Dhaka

Photographs: Jason Lee/Reuters

A farmer drives a car transporting dried stalks in Guye, north China's Hebei Province, China.

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A farmer carries bundles of straw on his bicycle at Dhanpur village, about 80km south of Agartala, capital Tripura.

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A man transports used pots of paints in Dhaka.

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A man holds a painting on a motorcycle in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province.

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Photographs: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters

A man pushes his bicycle loaded with firewood on the Mchinji road - the highway linking Malawi to Zambia's eastern province.

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Photographs: Jitendra Prakash/Reuters

A potter transports earthen pots on his bicycle to sell in a market in Allahabad.

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Photographs: Normand Blouin/Reuters

An overloaded truck carries bales of rice stalks near Rosso, as it heads for the capital Nouakchott, Mauritania.

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A woman rides a tricycle bearing a newly purchased couch in central Beijing.

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