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May 18, 2023
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2023-05-18
)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Kivu conflict
Four people are killed and six others are injured in an armed
ambush
on a convoy near the village of Kivandya,
North Kivu
,
Democratic Republic of the Congo
.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
2023 Emilia-Romagna floods
The death toll from the
floods
in the
region
of
Emilia-Romagna
,
Italy
, increases to thirteen, as five more people are killed in
Ravenna
.
(Il Fatto Quotidiano)
A
five-alarm
fire
in
SouthPark
,
Charlotte
,
North Carolina
,
United States
, engulfs and collapses two large buildings under construction, killing two
construction workers
. Emergency personnel rescue fifteen other workers, one of whom is later hospitalized.
(
The Charlotte Observer
)
Eleven people are killed in
Guangxi
,
China
, when a vehicle carrying 14 passengers falls off a cliff into a pool of water.
(Al Arabiya)
Law and crime
2017 New York City truck attack
Sayfullo Saipov is given ten
life sentences
and an additional 260 years in prison for killing eight people and injuring 12 others in a 2017
vehicle-ramming attack
in
New York City
, United States.
(BBC News)
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