Portal:Current events/2023 March 5

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • Three Armenian police officers and two Azerbaijani soldiers are killed during border clashes near the Lachin Corridor. Both countries accuse the other of opening fire first. (DW)
• Yemeni civil war
  • Jihadist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula acknowledges that a senior leader was killed in a recent airstrike by the United States Air Force in Yemen. (WION)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Kutupalong refugee camp fire
  • More than 2,000 shelters are destroyed in a fire in Kutupalong refugee camp, Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong Division, Bangladesh. (BBC News)
• Two people are killed and nine others are injured in a human stampede at a GloRilla concert in Rochester, New York, United States. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Estonian parliamentary election
  • Estonians head to the polls to elect the 101 members of the Riigikogu. (AP)