Twenty images of the week

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

A trainee pulls a fellow trainee, who’s pretending to be injured, by way of sewage-contaminated water over the last week of a 10-week programme to grow to be members of the Taiwan navy’s elite amphibious reconnaissance and patrol unit, at Zuoying navy base. The trainees must endure the whole lot from lengthy marches to hours within the water, with fixed screaming at them from their instructors. Of the group of 31 who began the course, solely 15 accomplished it.

{Photograph}: Ann Wang/Reuters