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Portal:Current events/2021 July 10

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Armed conflicts and attacks

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Health and environment

Law and crime

  • Rupganj factory fire
    • Police in Bangladesh arrest eight people, including the factory's company owner in connection with the fire that killed at least 52 people. Police say that emergency exits were locked in the building. (DW)
  • A four-day gun battle between security forces and armed gangs in the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, results in the deaths of more than 26 people and the wounding of 40 others. Authorities says that the fighting is now under control, but that there may still be a number of snipers in the streets. The killed people are identified as 22 gang members and four police officers, but a number of civilians also died in the clashes. (BBC News)
  • Police arrest five people in Santa Ana de Yusguare, Honduras, after they were identified as part of the mob of over 600 people who lynched and killed an Italian man accused of murdering a homeless elderly man. (Reuters)

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