Portal:Current events/2017 August 16

August 16, 2017 (Wednesday)

Arts and culture

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

2017 Sierra Leone mudslides
- A mass burial of victims of the landslide is held in Freetown to free up space in mortuaries. Nearly 400 people are confirmed dead with at least 600 missing. (BBC)
2017 DR Congo landslide
- A landslide in a village along Lake Albert in the Democratic Republic of the Congo leaves at least 60 dead. (Al Jazeera)
Accidents and incidents involving helicopters
- A United States Army Combat Aviation Brigade UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes off the coast of Hawaii, with five people on board. A United States Coast Guard-led search for the missing is underway. (Sky News)

Law and crime

Philippine Drug War
- At least 32 people are killed in a series of police raids near Manila, Philippines, allegedly due to the ongoing drug war. (The Guardian)
Crisis in Venezuela
- Venezuelan security forces raid a prison in Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas State, killing at least 37 inmates. Amazonas Governor Liborio Guarulla describes the killings as a "massacre". (Reuters)

Science and technology

Evolution
- Researchers from the University of Cambridge suggest that the Chilesaurus may be the so-called "missing link" between the Stegosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus. (CNN)