Portal:Current events/2002 October 6
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October 6, 2002 (Sunday)
- The Limburg, a French oil tanker, explodes off the coast of Yemen, in a terrorist attack.
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In the West Bank village of Akraba, Jewish settlers fire upon Palestinians picking olives, shooting dead 24-year-old Hani Yusuf and wounding another. Israelis soldiers shoot dead Samir Nursi, an Islamic Jihad gunman, in a gun battle in the Jenin refugee camp.