Portal:Current events/2013 August 6
August 6, 2013 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2013 India–Pakistan border incidents: Five Indian Army soldiers are killed in an attack near the Pakistan border in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. (Reuters)
- Danish police evacuate part of central Copenhagen after a parked car is found with wires attached to it. (Reuters Trust)
- 2013 embassy closures:
- The United States Department of State evacuates staff from the United States Embassy in Yemen due to an al-Qaida threat. (AP via NPR)
- Ten people are killed in a clash between rival drug cartels in Honduras. (BBC)
- Syrian civil war:
- Syrian rebels capture Menagh Military Airbase in Aleppo near the Turkish border. (BBC), (CNN)
- A car bomb kills 18 people and wounds 55 in a suburb in Damascus. (USA Today)
- A chemical attack on Adra and Houma in the Damascus Suburbs is reported. (Israel National News)
- Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):
- Yemeni tribesman shoot down an army military helicopter killing eight soldiers. (The Times of India)
- Four suspected Al-Qaeda militants are killed in a drone strike. (Reuters)
- Tunisian police shoot dead an Islamist Militant on the outskirt of the capital Tunis in a raid. (Reuters) (Daily Telegraph)
Disaster and accidents
- A gas explosion in an apartment block kills five people and injures a dozen in the Argentine city of Rosario. (USA Today)
- A hot Air Balloon carrying an American family crashes killing one person and injures four in the Swiss town of Montbovon. (Huffington Post)
Law and crime
- The trial of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a former United States Army Medical Corps officer and the Gunman during the Fort Hood shooting, begins. (Washington Post)
- The first execution by lethal injection is officially implemented in Viet Nam when 27-year-old Nguyễn Anh Tuấn is executed in Hanoi. (Vietnamnet)
Politics and elections
- Tunisia's constituent assembly is suspended until the Islamist-led Government and secular opposition begin talks to resolve a Political crisis. (BBC)
- Saudi king Abdullah appoints Prince Sultan bin Salman Al Saud as deputy Defense Minister. (Jerusalem Post)