Portal:Current events/2007 October 13
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October 13, 2007 (Saturday)
- At least nine people die and 8 people go missing as a result of torrential rain in and around Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. (AFP)
- At least 20 people die following a landslide at an open pit gold mine near Suarez in Colombia's Tolima department. (Reuters)
- At least 11 people are dead and 23 more injured after a natural gas explosion in an apartment building in Dnipropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- Four people are killed and over 50 injured when rear carriages of Probhati Express derails near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Tens of thousands of people participate in a pro-government rally in Rangoon as Ibrahim Gambari, the United Nations envoy, returns to Southeast Asia. (AFP via ABC)
- Flooding after several days of torrential rain kills at least 23 people in Haiti with the town of Cabaret being worst affected. (BBC)