Portal:Current events/2013 April 28
April 28, 2013 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war:
- Syrian rebels capture three military airbases in the north. (The Washington Post)
- Men in technicals, pickup trucks with anti-aircraft guns, block off and surround the Libyan foreign ministry in the capital Tripoli demanding a ban on Gaddafi-era officials working in the government (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- War in North-West Pakistan:
- At least eight people are dead and dozens injured as a result of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attacks on election candidates in Kohat and Peshawar. (The New York Times)
Disasters
- At least three people die and fourteen are injured when an apartment building in the French city of Reims collapses after a suspected gas explosion, leaving people trapped under debris. (AFP via News24)[permanent dead link]
- Four people are killed when a small bridge collapses near Thailand's ancient capital of Ayutthaya. (ABC News)
Law and crime
- A man stabs and wounds four people at a church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. (CNN)
- In Italy, a man shoots and wounds two policemen outside Palazzo Chigi, during the swearing ceremony of the new Prime Minister Enrico Letta. (BBC)
- In Valley Springs, California (a rural town of about 2,500 people) authorities are searching for an intruder who fatally stabbed an 8-year-old girl, Leila Fowler, at her home. After her 12-year-old brother discovered him, the intruder fled. (NBC News)