Portal:Current events/2023 March 13
March 13, 2023 (Monday)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022–23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
- Cyclone Freddy
- Cyclone Freddy kills at least 99 people in Malawi, including 85 people in Blantyre. It is the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record, according to the WMO, having formed on February 4. (The Guardian)
- Cyclone Freddy
- Thirty-four people are killed after a boat carrying migrants from Madagascar to the island of Mayotte sinks. (Arab News)
- One person is killed and three others are injured by an apparent gas explosion in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. (BBC News)
Law and crime
- 2023 Amqui truck attack
- Two people are killed and nine others are injured when a truck strikes a group of pedestrians in Amqui, Quebec, Canada. (CBS News)
Politics and elections