Portal:Current events/2017 April 8
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;Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Afghanistan
- A U.S. special forces service member is killed while taking part in an operation against ISIL militants in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province. [http://news.sky.com/story/us-special-forces-soldier-killed-in-operation-against-is-in-afghanistan-10830909 (Sky News)]
;Disasters and accidents
- A freight train derails in Hunedoara County, Romania, killing both crew members on board. [https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/04/08/world/europe/ap-eu-romania-train-accident.html (The New York Times)]
- In Świebodzice, Poland, an old tenement house collapses killing at least six people, including two children, and injuring six. The exploration teams are looking for 4 missing people. [http://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,35771,21610053,tragedia-w-swiebodzicach-zawalila-sie-kamienica.html#MT (Gazeta.pl)]
- Cyclone Debbie
- Another body has been found after flooding in eastern Queensland, raising the death toll to twelve. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-08/queensland-floods-man-missing-mondure-found/8428074 (ABC News)]
- At least 20 people are killed when a boat carrying wedding guests collides with a river barge in western Myanmar. [http://www.news24.com/news24/World/News/20-killed-in-myanmar-wedding-boat-crash-20170408-2 (AFP via News24)]
- 2017 Batangas earthquakes
- Two earthquakes, with magnitudes of 5.6 and 6.0 and related to the April 4 magnitude 5.5 earthquake, hits Batangas, and are felt as far as Metro Manila. [http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issues/disasters/166417-earthquakeph-quake-metro-manila-neigboring-provinces (Rappler)]
;Law and crime
- ETA ceasefire negotiations
- The militant Basque separatist group ETA begins handing over its remaining weapons during a ceremony in Bayonne, France, in which the group turned over to authorities an inventory of weapons and their locations. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39536136 (BBC)]
- Four inmates are killed at Kirkland Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Authorities have charged two inmates with the murders of the four men. [http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/authorities-4-inmates-found-dead-south-carolina-prison-n744076 (NBC News)]
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