Portal:Current events/2023 March 13

March 13, 2023 (Monday)

Disasters and accidents

2022–23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Cyclone Freddy
  - Cyclone Freddy kills at least 99 people in Malawi, including 85 people in Blantyre. It is the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record, according to the WMO, having formed on February 4. (The Guardian)
Thirty-four people are killed after a boat carrying migrants from Madagascar to the island of Mayotte sinks. (Arab News)
One person is killed and three others are injured by an apparent gas explosion in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. (BBC News)

Law and crime

2023 Amqui truck attack
- Two people are killed and nine others are injured when a truck strikes a group of pedestrians in Amqui, Quebec, Canada. (CBS News)

Politics and elections