Portal:Current events/2023 March 24

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • 2023 Syria clashes
    • A rocket attack targets a U.S. military base in Syria in retaliation for retaliatory airstrikes from the United States hours earlier. No damages or casualties are reported. (Al Arabiya)
  • Fifteen people are killed and 40 others are kidnapped in Hama Governorate during an ambush on truffle hunters by Islamic State members. (UCA News)

Disasters and accidents

• Tornado outbreak of March 24, 2023
  • At least 23 people are killed after a series of violent tornadoes impact the U.S. state of Mississippi. (BBC News)
• 2023 Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion
  • Seven people are killed and many others are injured after an explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. (The Guardian)
• Illegal immigration to the United States
  • Two people are killed and ten others are injured by suffocation in a freight train in the U.S. state of Texas. (Reuters)
• Twelve people are injured and 30 houses were damaged by a tornado in Fazilka district, Punjab, India. (Devdiscourse)

Law and crime

• Assassination of Jovenel Moïse
  • A dual Haitian-Chilean citizen pleads guilty to three murder-related charges in a court in the United States over his role in the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse. (Reuters)
• 2019 Samoa assassination plot
  • Two men are found guilty of conspiring to kill the former Prime Minister Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi after a trial before the country's Supreme Court. (RNZ)