Children buried in sand during solar eclipse as relatives believe it will heal them
Desperate families have buried their sick children in the sand during a solar eclipse in the hope it cures them.
The children are covered up to their necks at the beach in Karachi, Pakistan, leaving their faces exposed to the ‘healing’ sun rays.
Other eclipse superstitions include no food being cooked during the astronomic event, and the ritual of taking a bath and changing into clean clothes when it ends.
Regular activities such as sleeping, urinating, defecating and having sex is also prohibited by some communities during the eclipse.
The partial solar eclipse was visible from most of Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East and Western parts of Asia.
In Pakistan, the eclipse began at 1.58pm and ended at 6.20pm, with the greatest point occurring at 4pm.
This eclipse was only partial and the moon’s shadow did not touch the surface of the earth at any point, the Paris Observatory said.
It will be the 16th partial solar eclipse of the century, and the second this year.
Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.
For more stories like this, check our news page.