Portal:Current events/2023 September 29

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Hangu mosque bombing
    • Five people are killed and ten others are injured by two suicide bombers at a mosque in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
  • Four soldiers and three Pakistani Taliban militants are killed during a shootout in Zhob, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (Aaj English Tv)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • 2023 Mastung bombing
    • At least 50 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured in a suicide bombing at a religious gathering in Mastung, Balochistan, Pakistan. (BBC News)
• Somali Civil War
  • Mogadishu tea shop bombing
    • At least five people are killed and 18 others are injured when an al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonates his explosive belt in a tea shop in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• Toys "R" Us announces plans to open 24 new flagship stores across the United States, along with new shops in airports and on cruise ships, after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy six years ago. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• September 2023 New York floods
  • New York City declares a state of emergency due to widespread flooding caused by heavy rain. (CNN)
• Nagorno-Karabakh fuel depot explosion
  • The death toll from an explosion at a fuel warehouse in Berkadzor, Artsakh, on Monday increases to 170 people. (Reuters)
• M53 motorway coach crash
  • Two people are killed and 17 injured after a school bus crashes into a central reservation and overturns in The Wirral, England. (BBC News)
• Nine people are killed, four others are trapped, and 21 are rescued after a mine collapses in Chegutu, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe. (New Zimbabwe)
• Five people are killed and five more are hospitalized as a semi truck carrying a toxic substance turns over near Teutopolis, Illinois, United States, causing evacuations. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• Murder of Tupac Shakur
  • Duane "Keefe D" Davis is arrested by police for the 1996 murder of American rapper Tupac Shakur. (CNN)
• A second suspect, a man in his sixties, is arrested in connection with the felling of the Sycamore Gap Tree in Northumberland, United Kingdom. (Sky News)

Politics and elections

• Aftermath of 2023 Guatemalan general election
  • Rafael Curruchiche, a prosecutor in the Guatemalan attorney general's office, accuses the Organization of American States and the European Union of interference in the election and says that around a thousand people denounced irregularities in electoral process. (Prensa Libre)(Prensa Libre)
• The Supreme Court of Belarus bans the activities of the Belarusian Left Party after a complaint filed by the Ministry of Justice. Only four political parties remain permitted to operate. (Nasha Niva)