Twenty Southern Transitional Council separatist fighters are killed by al-Qaeda gunmen in Abyan Governorate. All of the six attackers are also killed in the gunfight.
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September 6, 2022 (Tuesday)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Six people are killed and eight others are injured when separatists open fire on a public bus in South West, Cameroon.
Gunmen storm the Comboni Missionary Sisters' church in Chipene, Mozambique, killing an Italian nun and setting ablaze the church, the nuns' homes and the hospital. Two other nuns and two priests escaped.
Fights erupt in the village of Talataye between the Islamic State, Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, with the Malian Armed Forces launching airstrikes amid the fighting. At least 30 people are killed.
Six people are killed and three others are kidnapped as Islamists insurgents raid the districts of Erati and Memba, Mozambique, torching dozens of houses. Six attackers are arrested.
Disasters and accidents
Ten people are killed in South Korea by Typhoon Hinnamnor. Seven of the victims died in a flooded underground car park. In addition, 2,900 people are evacuated and 66,000 homes are damaged.
At least 32 people are killed and 11 others are injured by a fire at a karaoke bar in Binh Duong, Vietnam.
Health and environment
India approves a nasal COVID-19 vaccine to combat COVID-19, becoming the second country to do so after China.
Wisconsin and North Carolina expand their eligibility for the monkeypox vaccine in at-risk communities.
Law and crime
Kiribati suspends three retired New Zealand judges from the Kiribati Court of Appeal as the constitutional crisis worsens.
Couy Griffin, a commissioner of Otero County, New Mexico, United States, is barred from public office by a state judge due to his involvement in the January 6 attack, which was determined to be an insurrection. This is the first time that the Fourteenth Amendment has been used in more than a century to ban a person who participated in an insurrection from serving in the government.
Politics and elections
One person is killed during anti-U.N. protests in Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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