Portal:Current events/2017 July 29

Current events of July 29, 2017 (2017-07-29) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Terrorism in Australia
  • Australian federal police conduct raids in four separate suburbs of Sydney detaining individuals and confiscating materials in a suspected plot to bomb an aircraft. (The Guardian)
• Kenyan general election, 2017
  • A man, wielding a machete, attacks the home of Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto injuring one guard, 10 days before national elections. Ruto and his family were not home at the time. The assailant fled to a farm complex reportedly hiding in an unfinished building. There are other media reports that gunmen also struck the home. (AP via The Washington Post) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• South African Premier Division
  • Two people die and 17 others are injured in a stampede at the First National Bank Stadium in Soweto, near Johannesburg, South Africa, during a soccer match between Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs. (Mail and Guardian) (BBC)