Current events: 2024-10-06

Wikipedia Current Events · Oct 6, 2024

Armed conflicts and attacks

Israel–Hamas war
- 2024 Beersheba bus station shooting
  - A police officer is killed and thirteen other people are injured in Beersheba, Israel, in an incident described as a terrorist attack. The perpetrator is shot dead by security forces. (The Jerusalem Post)
- Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
  - At least 26 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes allegedly targeting Hamas militants that hit a mosque and a school housing displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. (BBC News)
Israel–Hezbollah conflict
- 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
  - Hezbollah claims that its attacks on Israeli soldiers trying to infiltrate Blida, Lebanon, forced the soldiers to retreat. (Barron's)
- A rocket fired from Lebanon strikes a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, injuring at least six people. (The Jerusalem Post)
Insurgency in Sindh
- At least one person is killed and several others are injured when an explosive device detonates near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. The separatist group Balochistan Liberation Army claims responsibility for the explosion. (DW)

Law and crime

One person is shot dead at a mall in Kungsbacka, Sweden, with a suspect later arrested by Swedish Police. (Expressen)
One person is killed and another is injured when a pickup truck crashes into a bus stop in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. The driver is arrested at the scene. (CBC News)