March 9, 2017 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian Civil War, American-led intervention in Syria
- According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, multiple suspected U.S.-led coalition air raids kill at least 23 civilians in the village of al-Matab in northern Syria. (Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
- German and Egyptian archaeologists uncover a humanoid statue with an approximate height of eight metres, believed to be of Ramesses II, at the former site of Heliopolis in northeast Cairo. (The Daily Telegraph)
Disasters and accidents
- A motorway bridge near Ancona, Italy, collapses killing two Italians and injuring two Romanian workers. The Italian highway agency links the collapse with a temporary structure that was designed to support it. (BBC)
- An overcrowded bus veers off a mountain road in Jajarkot District, Nepal, killing at least 24 people. (Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
- 2017 Düsseldorf axe attack
- An assailant injures seven people, one severely, in an axe attack at the central railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany. Police have arrested one suspect. (CNN)