May 2022 was the fifth month of that common year. The month, which began on a Sunday, ended on a Tuesday after 31 days.

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from May 2022.

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  • COVID-19 pandemic
    • WHO puts estimate of deaths due to COVID-19, including incidentals due to impacted health systems, at approximately 15 million worldwide. (CBC)

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  • 2022 Madrid explosion
    • Two people are killed and eighteen others are injured when an explosion occurs in a residential building in Madrid, Spain. (AP)
  • Hotel Saratoga explosion
    • At least 26 people are killed and at least 74 others are injured by an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak at the Hotel Saratoga in Havana, Cuba. (AP)
  • Two people die and over 100 more are rescued as a boat carrying migrants runs aground in southern Italy. (AP)

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  • A small plane crashes in Cameroon with eleven people on board. It is unknown if any casualties occurred. (AP)

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  • Around 200 anti-government militants block a road in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan, which links the country to China. Some of the militants, armed with firearms and petrol bombs, later ambush a security convoy on the same road. Eight militants and one officer are killed, while 13 officers are injured and more than 70 militants are arrested. The Tajik interior ministry later say the attack was an attempt to "destabilise the social and political situation" in the region. (Reuters)

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  • Twelve people are killed and another is injured after a wall of a salt factory collapses in Morbi, Gujarat, India. Several others are missing. (Reuters)
  • One person is killed and several others are injured after a car drives into 14 cyclists in Przypki, Poland. (AP)

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  • An unusually cold spell of weather hits southern Brazil. A meteorological station in Gama noted the lowest temperature since the beginning of weather observations (1963) in the Federal District, which contains the capital, Brasília, at 1.4 °C (34.5 °F). Several locations in the area have also seen snowfall, which is very rare in the country. (France 24)

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  1. ^ Eoin McSweeney (2023-05-13). "'IDF apologizes for death of Al Jazeera's Shireen Abu Akleh'". CNN. Retrieved 2024-05-11.