Portal:Current events/2017 April 8

April 8, 2017 (Saturday)

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. (Sky News)

Disasters and accidents

A freight train derails in Hunedoara County, Romania, killing both crew members on board. (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. (Gazeta.pl)
Cyclone Debbie
- Another body has been found after flooding in eastern Queensland, raising the death toll to twelve. (ABC News)
At least 20 people are killed when a boat carrying wedding guests collides with a river barge in western Myanmar. (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. (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. (BBC)
Four inmates are killed at Kirkland Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Authorities have charged two inmates with the murders of the four men. (NBC News)