Drone shows, fireworks light up night of Inner Mongolia to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival, Children's Day

A show performed by over 800 drones and fireworks illuminated the sky over Wulanmulun Lake in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Saturday evening to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival and the International Children's Day.

Crowds of visitors were intrigued by the stunning activity when the dazzling sparks ignited the night.

The show adopted advanced technologies to improve the staging and achieve smoke-free discharge for environmental protection purposes.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, is a traditional Chinese holiday to commemorate ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan from the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.). Celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, the festival falls on May 31 this year.

Hundreds of drones created a pattern of a "dragon boat" to reflect the theme of the festival.

The International Children's Day is celebrated on June 1 every year.

As the Children's Day falls within the 2025 Dragon Boat Festival holiday running from May 31 to June 2, the show also displayed the images of the Chinese Young Pioneers, a national organization for children.

Drone shows, fireworks light up night of Inner Mongolia to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival, Children's Day

Drone shows, fireworks light up night of Inner Mongolia to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival, Children's Day

Drone shows, fireworks light up night of Inner Mongolia to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival, Children's Day

The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.

The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.

Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.

"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.

Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.

Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.

"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.

Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight