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Portal:Current events/2018 November 3
November 3, 2018 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan
- An Afghan commando in Kabul kills Major Brent Taylor of the Utah National Guard, who was also the mayor of North Ogden, Utah. (The New York Times)
Disasters and accidents
- Lion Air Flight 610
- An Indonesian Diving Rescue Team member dies while searching the debris from the passenger jet that crashed earlier this week near Jakarta. (ABC News)
- A lorry loses control at a toll station in Lanzhou, China, killing at least 15 people and injuring 44 others. (BBC)
- Colten Treu faces charges of vehicular homicide and drug related charges after he drove his car into a group of Girl Scouts collecting trash by the road, killing 3 and a mother along a Wisconsin highway (KSTP) Treu claimed his passenger was huffing Dust-Off and caused the accident by grabbing the wheel as he saw the scouts (Oxygen)
Law and crime
- Foreign fighters in the Syrian and Iraqi Civil Wars
- A 17-year-old Kashmir student who disappeared from Sharda University, Ahtesham Bilal Sofi, is found to have joined the Islamic State. (NDTV), (The Times of India)
Sports
- Japan Series, Nippon Professional Baseball
- The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks defeat the Hiroshima Toyo Carp to win the 2018 Japan Series. (The Japan Times)
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