20 October, 2019
An Indian Alliance Air aircraft gets a water salute as Jaffna International Airport in northern Sri Lanka is reopened in Jaffna on October 17, 2019. - The British-built facility was initially a World War II staging post and later used as a regional civil aviation facility, but was shut for commercial airlines for decades due to the drawn-out Tamil separatist war in the region between 1972 and 2009. (Pix: Ishara S. Kodikara / AFP)