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Portal:Current events/2016 June 2

June 2, 2016 (2016-06-02) (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Arts and culture
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
  • 2016 European floods
    • At least eleven people are killed in heavy flooding across Europe. (BBC) (Bloomberg)
    • The Louvre will close briefly to move the artwork most at risk from flooding. (The New York Times)
  • In Smyrna, Tennessee, Captain Jeff "Kooch" Kuss, a pilot of the aerobatic team Blue Angels is killed attempting a Split S. The cause was pilot error. (USNI News)
  • A Romanian medical helicopter crashes near Cahul, Moldova, killing four people. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
  • May 2016 United States storm complex
  • In Columbus, Ohio, a 7 month old baby is killed in his stroller when a woman driving alone with a learning permit jumped the curb, hit his father and the child and crashed into a building. No cause of the crash has been established. (WBNS-10TV)
International relations
Law and crime
  • An autopsy finds that American musician Prince died of an overdose of fentanyl, an opioid painkiller 50 times more powerful than heroin. (AP) (The New York Times)
  • 2016 UCLA shooting
    • A second victim of the UCLA shooter is found in Minnesota; the shooter is identified as a former Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering that claimed his first victim had "cleverly stolen his code." (The New York Times)
  • Four Syrians who are suspected of traveling to Europe on behalf of the Islamic State to attack Düsseldorf are arrested. (The New York Times)
  • 2016 Mathura clash
    • 24 people are killed and 368 arrested in the Indian city of Mathura as police attempt to clear members of a squatter group from land they are occupying. (The Times of India)
  • Violence breaks out at a rally supporting Donald Trump in San Jose, California. An officer and several demonstrators were assaulted, and a few people were arrested. (CNN)
  • In Ottawa, Canada Marc Leduc is found guilty first-degree murder in the killings of two women found dead in 2008 and 2011 involved in drugs and sex trade. His DNA was matched after he was arrested in a 2012 sex assault with a knife. (CTV News)
  • Catholics in France and Belgium are recovering from ISIS attacks including numerous acts of violence and aggression, fires set in churches, an assault on a priest, the desecration of a tabernacle and the hacking of more than 100 Catholic websites. (Catholic News Agency)
Politics and elections
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