Portal:Current events/2010 March 7
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March 7, 2010 (Sunday)
- Hundreds of Christian villagers are hacked to death with machetes by Muslim herders in Dogo-Nahawa, Nigeria. (Reuters) (BBC) (The Washington Post)
- Tens of thousands demonstrate against an abortion bill in several Spanish cities. (BBC) (The Mercury)
- Melbourne, Australia experiences flooding after a once-in-a-century thunderstorm of marble-sized hailstones which tears the roof from a railway station and leads to the postponement of sports fixtures. A state of emergency is declared in Queensland.(Sky News) (The Times)
- Voters in Iraq take part in parliamentary elections and a referendum on the Status of Forces Agreement. (Al Jazeera) (BBC)
- Voters in Switzerland take part in a referendum on whether to provide lawyers for non-human animals and other issues. (Swissinfo) (Deutsche Welle)
- Five Pakistani police officials are suspended due to their negligence in the kidnapping of British Pakistani boy Sahil Saeed. (Sky News)
- Three people are killed falling from high-rise flats in Glasgow. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Sky News) (The Times)