Portal:Current events/2013 September 29

September 29, 2013 (2013-09-29) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Islamist insurgency in Nigeria:
  • Gunmen from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram kill 42 people, mostly students, in an attack on a college in the town of Gujba, Yobe State. (The Telegraph)

• Mexican Drug War:
  • Shootings erupt over the weekend in three Mexican cities (Cuernavaca, Fresnillo, Monterrey) where drug gangs are fighting turf battles, killing at least nine people and wounding six more. (ABC News)

• Syrian civil war:
  • Activists fighting Syrian government forces say that at least 16 people, most of them students, were killed in an air strike from Syrian government warplanes that hit a secondary school in the rebel-held Syrian city of Raqqa. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• Award-winning American television series Breaking Bad airs its final episode on AMC, concluding the series after five seasons and 62 episodes. (Associated Press via NPR)

Disasters and accidents

• The death toll from a building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, on September 27 rises to 60 as the rescue operation is called off. (BBC)
• Heavy rains in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, lead to damage valued at over 100 million rupees. (Times of India)

Politics and elections

• Voters in Austria go to the polls for a legislative election. (BBC)

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