Portal:Current events/2023 March 4

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Battle of Bakhmut
• Heavy street fighting takes place between Russian and Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast. The city's deputy mayor Oleksandr Marchenko says that "not a single building" has remained untouched by fighting, and that the city is "almost destroyed". [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64846666 (BBC News)]
• In a rare high-level visit to the Donbas, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is filmed inspecting troops in "the eastern military district in the south Donetsk direction". [https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/mar/04/russia-ukraine-war-live-ukraine-fortifying-bakhmut-as-russian-encirclement-looms (The Guardian)]
• Kivu conflict
• Burundi deploys 100 troops to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to help the country fight insurgencies by militias, including M23. [https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/burundi-to-deploy-troops-to-east-drc-4145612 (AFP via The East African)]

Disasters and accidents

• Seven people are killed and 17 others are injured in a fire and subsequent explosion at an oxygen plant in Sitakunda, Bangladesh. [https://www.dhakatribune.com/nation/2023/03/06/sitakunda-oxygen-plant-blast-injured-suffer-from-hearing-loss (Dhaka Tribune)]
• Twenty-one people are injured in a bus crash in Corps, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. [https://apnews.com/article/french-alps-bus-crash-children-02319eed6c8ddb8722659219c6434483 (AP)]
• A Norfolk Southern train derails in Clark County, Ohio, United States, with local residents advised to shelter in place. The derailment comes just over one month after the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials in East Palestine, Ohio. However, no hazardous materials are known to be involved in the Clark County derailment. [https://www.wdtn.com/news/train-derails-in-springfield-roads-close/ (WDTN-TV)]

International relations

• United Nations member states finalize the text of the High Seas Treaty, which aims to declare 30% of the world's oceans marine protected areas by 2030. [https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64815782 (BBC News)]

Law and crime

• Assassination of Roel Degamo
• Nine people, including Negros Oriental governor Roel Degamo, are killed by unknown gunmen in Degamo's home in Pamplona, Philippines. [https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2520296/philippine-governor-5-others-shot-dead (AFP via The Bangkok Post)] [https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1955086/cebu/local-news/negros-oriental-governor-assassinated-8-others-dead-9-injured (SunStar)]

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