Portal:Current events/2017 September 30

Current events of September 30, 2017 (2017-09-30) (Saturday)

Law and crime

• A police officer in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is stabbed after attempting to apprehend a man who threw a game-day barricade near Commonwealth Stadium. The suspect fled the scene and remains at large. (Edmonton Journal)

Disasters and accidents

• A fire at a retirement home in Bucharest leaves one person dead and 19 others injured. (The New York Times)
• A military transport plane crashes after take-off from N'djili Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing all 12 Russian crew members. (Deutsche Welle via MSN)

Sports

• The Australian rules football club Richmond Football Club defeats the Adelaide Football Club in the 2017 AFL Grand Final by 108 points to 60. Dustin Martin won the Norm Smith Medal for best on ground after having won the 2017 Brownlow Medal for the best and fairest player in the competition. (ABC Australia)(ABC Australia)