The story behind the hijab: Meet the semi-automatic rifle-wielding female police officer whose powerful image went viral after she was seen wearing the Islamic garb and a rose after the Christchurch massacre. Toting a semi-automatic rifle, police officer Michelle Evans looked foreboding as she stood outside a cemetery in Christchurch yesterday. But her decision to wear a hijab and pin a red rose to her bulletproof vest as an act of symbolic solidarity touched people around the world. The photograph, taken by Associated Press photographer Vincent Yu, went viral on Friday with many people commenting that Ms Evans perfectly reflected the feeling many New Zealanders had towards Muslims. 🕺

Thursday's explosion in the eastern city of Yancheng in China injured more than 600 people and flattened an industrial park. More than two dozen people are still missing in the debris of one of the country's worst industrial accidents in recent years. The local fire brigade pulled a man in his 40s from the rubble of the destroyed plant around dawn today, according to a statement on the city government's official Weibo account. He was taken to hospital for treatment, the statement said, without giving further detail of his status or injuries.

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