Portal:Current events/2023 October 1

October 1, 2023 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Kurdish–Turkish conflict
- 2023 Ankara bombing
  - A suicide bomber causes an explosion outside the Interior Ministry in Ankara, Turkey, injuring two police officers. A second attacker is shot dead by police. (Al Jazeera)
Mali War
- Tuareg rebels take control of the town of Bamba, Gao Region, Mali, claiming over 80 soldiers have been killed. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

Fonda Milagros nightclub fire
- At least 13 people are killed and four others are injured in a fire at a nightclub in Murcia, Spain. (BBC News)
Ten people are killed and 60 more are injured after a church's roof collapses during a baptism ceremony in Ciudad Madero, Mexico. (Al Jazeera)
Ten people are killed and 25 more are injured after a truck carrying mostly Cuban migrants overturned between Pijijiapan and Tonalá in Chiapas, Mexico. (AFP via CNA)

Politics and elections

California Governor Gavin Newsom appoints Laphonza Butler to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by the death of Dianne Feinstein. She will be California's first LGBT senator and the Senate's first African-American lesbian.(Politico)

Sports