Portal:Current events/2013 September 29

September 29, 2013 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Mexican Drug War:
- Shootings erupt over the weekend in three Mexican cities (Cuernavaca, Fresnillo, Monterrey) where drug gangs are fighting turf battles, killing at least nine people and wounding six more. (ABC News)

Syrian civil war:
- Activists fighting Syrian government forces say that at least 16 people, most of them students, were killed in an air strike from Syrian government warplanes that hit a secondary school in the rebel-held Syrian city of Raqqa. (Reuters)

Arts and culture

Award-winning American television series Breaking Bad airs its final episode on AMC, concluding the series after five seasons and 62 episodes. (Associated Press via NPR)

Disasters and accidents

The death toll from a building that collapsed in Mumbai, India, on September 27 rises to 60 as the rescue operation is called off. (BBC)
Heavy rains in Rajkot, Gujarat, India, lead to damage valued at over 100 million rupees. (Times of India)

Politics and elections