Portal:Current events/2017 April 8
April 8, 2017 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan
- A U.S. special forces service member is killed while taking part in an operation against ISIL militants in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province. (Sky News)
Disasters and accidents
- A freight train derails in Hunedoara County, Romania, killing both crew members on board. (The New York Times)
- In Świebodzice, Poland, an old tenement house collapses killing at least six people, including two children, and injuring six. The exploration teams are looking for 4 missing people. (Gazeta.pl)
- Cyclone Debbie
- Another body has been found after flooding in eastern Queensland, raising the death toll to twelve. (ABC News)
- At least 20 people are killed when a boat carrying wedding guests collides with a river barge in western Myanmar. (AFP via News24)
- 2017 Batangas earthquakes
- Two earthquakes, with magnitudes of 5.6 and 6.0 and related to the April 4 magnitude 5.5 earthquake, hits Batangas, and are felt as far as Metro Manila. (Rappler)
Law and crime
- ETA ceasefire negotiations
- The militant Basque separatist group ETA begins handing over its remaining weapons during a ceremony in Bayonne, France, in which the group turned over to authorities an inventory of weapons and their locations. (BBC)
- Four inmates are killed at Kirkland Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Authorities have charged two inmates with the murders of the four men. (NBC News)