Portal:Current events/2023 March 5
March 5, 2023 (Sabata)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- Three Armenian police officers and two Azerbaijani soldiers are killed during border clashes near the Lachin Corridor. Both countries accuse the other of opening fire first. (DW)
- Yemeni civil war
- Jihadist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula acknowledges that a senior leader was killed in a recent airstrike by the United States Air Force in Yemen. (WION)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Kutupalong refugee camp fire
- More than 2,000 shelters are destroyed in a fire in Kutupalong refugee camp, Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh. (BBC News)
- Two people are killed and nine others are injured in a human stampede at a GloRilla concert in Rochester, New York, United States. (AP)
Politics and elections