Portal:Current events/2023 October 6

6 Oktober 2023 (2023-10-06) (Jumat)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war
    • October 2023 Northern Syria clashes
      • Two Turkish soldiers are killed after the Syrian army fired on their positions with artillery in northern Syria. (SOHR)

Disasters and accidents

• Oaxaca migrant bus crash
  • Seventeen people are killed and fifteen others are injured after a bus carrying migrants from Venezuela crashes in Oaxaca, Mexico. (Reuters)
• Floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rain occur in Sri Lanka, with five people killed and five others injured when a tree falls on a bus in Colombo. Another person is killed by a falling rock in Galle District. (AP)
• Six people are killed and 38 others are injured in a fire at a six-storey residential building in Mumbai, India. (AP)
• The Community of Railway Workers of Belarus says that an explosion near the Aziaryšča railway station damaged a railway line used to transport Russian soldiers and military equipment. The cause of the blast remains unknown. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

Law and crime

• Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her support of feminism and human rights. (BBC News) (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• Charlot Salwai is elected as Prime Minister of Vanuatu following a no-confidence vote against Sato Kilman. (AFP via Barron's)