Disasters and accidents
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- A Cessna Citation plane traveling from Elizabethton Municipal Airport to Long Island MacArthur Airport turns southwest toward the direction of Washington D.C. miles before landing and becomes unresponsive. An F-16 jet from Joint Base Andrews attempts to intercept the Cessna jet at supersonic speed, causing a sonic boom heard around the Washington metropolitan area. The US FAA later confirms that the Cessna plane crashed over mountainous terrain in Saint Mary's Wilderness near Montebello, Virginia around 3:30 p.m. local time. (AP) (FOX 29) (FOX 5)
- Fourteen people are killed and five others are missing after a landslide in a mountainous area near Leshan, Sichuan, China. (Reuters)
- One person is killed and ten others are injured in a fire at a refugee centre in Apolda, Thuringia, Germany. (AP)
- In Italy, one person is killed and 14 others are injured when a bus traveling from Lecce in Puglia to Rome in Lazio crashes on a motorway in Vallesaccarda, Campania. (Ansa)
Law and crime
- Hong Kong police arrest dozens of pro-democracy activists, including Alexandra Wong, for holding a vigil to mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. (BBC News)
- Pro-democratic protests break out across Poland, with an estimated 500,000 demonstrators gathering in Warsaw, according to mayor Rafał Trzaskowski. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Guinea-Bissau legislative election
- The citizens of Guinea-Bissau go to the polls to elect 102 members of the National People's Assembly. (Reuters)
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