Portal:Current events/2024 March 24
March 24, 2024 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russia launches major airstrikes at Kyiv and Lviv involving Kinzhal missiles and drones with strikes hitting the ground level infrastructure of Ukraine's main gas storage site. (Reuters)
- March 2024 Polish airspace violation
- One of the missiles violates NATO airspace over Poland, prompting activation of planes from the Polish Air Force. (Reuters) (Sky News)
- 2024 Ecuadorian conflict
- The youngest mayor in Ecuador and one of her advisors are found shot dead in Manabí Province. (Reuters)
- Three gunmen attack the police headquarters in Yerevan, Armenia with grenades. Two of the attackers are injured by their grenades, while the third is detained. No other casualties are reported. (Reuters)
- Nigerian bandit conflict
- Kuriga kidnapping
- The pupils kidnapped on 7 March from schools in Kuriga, Chikun, Kaduna State, are freed. (BBC)
- Kuriga kidnapping
Disasters and accidents
- A rally car veers off the road and crashes into a group of spectators during the Esztergom-Nyerges Rally between the towns of Lábatlan and Bajót near the Danube in northwest Hungary, killing four people and injuring eight others. (AP)
- Twenty-three people are killed in a rainstorm in Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro states, Brazil. (ABC News)