Current events: 2024-01-05

Wikipedia Current Events · Jan 5, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Disasters and accidents

2024 Sea of Japan earthquake
- The death toll from the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, on January 1, increases to 94 people. At least 222 others are still missing. (AP)
Two passenger trains collide near Cicalengka railway station in Bandung Regency, West Java, Indonesia, killing at least four people and injuring others. (AP)
Four people are killed and others are injured by a fire at a hospital in Uelzen, Lower Saxony, Germany. (AP)
One person is killed and 11 others are injured when a bus rolls over in Lake George, New York, United States. (CBC News)

International relations

Foreign relations of Nepal; Russo-Ukrainian War
- Nepal stops issuing permits to its citizens to work in Russia and Ukraine after 10 Nepalis are killed while serving in the Russian Army. (Reuters)

Law and crime

South African former Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is released on parole after serving eight and a half years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (France 24)