Portal:Current events/2023 March 15

Armed conflicts and attacks

• A man accused of being the perpetrator of an explosion at the Megiddo Junction which injured a civilian two days ago is shot and killed by Israeli soldiers. The man is believed to have crossed into northern Israel from Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022–23 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
  • Cyclone Freddy
    • The death toll from Cyclone Freddy in Malawi increases to 225 people, mostly in the city of Blantyre. (Reuters)
• Twenty-one people are killed by a coal mine explosion in Sutatausa, Cundinamarca, Colombia. (El País)
• 2023 Turkish floods
  • Twelve people in Şanlıurfa and two in Adıyaman, Turkey, are killed by floods caused by heavy rain. (BBC News)