Portal:Current events/2003 June 24
June 24, 2003 (Tuesday)
- Six members of the British Royal Military Police are killed, in an attack in Majar al-Kabir, a village near the town of Amarah in Iraq. Eight others are wounded in two separate ambushes.[1]
- A violent tornado, rated F4 on the Fujita scale, annihilates the tiny town of Manchester, South Dakota. Manchester was never rebuilt and is now a "ghost town".[2]
- ^ Jamie Wilson; Richard Norton-Taylor; Michael White; Michael Howard. "Six British soldiers dead, eight hurt as a fragile peace fractures". World news. The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
- ^ "Tornado Archive - Home". TornadoArchive. TornadoArchive.