Current events: 2023-03-03

[Wikipedia Current Events]

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Plumpang oil depot fire
  • Seventeen people are killed and fifty others are injured by a fire in a fuel storage station in Koja, Jakarta, Indonesia. (Reuters)
• Sixteen people are killed when a pipeline explodes in Emohua, Rivers State, Nigeria. (AP)
• One person is killed in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States and more than 310,000 people are left without power across five states due to a system of storms affecting the area. (WAPT/ABC) (CNN)

Law and crime

• A court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, sentences opposition figure Kem Sokha to 27 years in prison on charges of "collusion with foreigners" and treason. (The Guardian)
• A court in Minsk, Belarus, sentences human rights activist and 2022 Nobel Peace laureate Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison over "financing actions violating public order" and smuggling. (AP)

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