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Sri Lanka: British tourist drowns in Bentota seas

As covered by news360.lk, “A British tourists has died after drowning in the Bentota seas in Southern Sri Lanka, announced the Police Headquarters. The tourist, who was 63 years of age at the time of his death, is known as Richard John Wagstan.” Read Article

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Cuba: Canadian tourist drowns at Varadero beach

According to globalnews.ca, “A Canadian has died while on vacation in Cuba. The Department of Foreign Affairs confirms the death of a Canadian citizen but there is no information yet on the man or his hometown…A man believed to be from Cuba also drowned trying to rescue the Canadian.” Read Article

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Tourist dies while snorkeling at Cabo San Lucas Mexico

A tourist from the United States died while snorkling in Cabo San Lucas. Robert Allen Wilkinson age 60 and from Alaska was a guest at the Hotel Wyndham. He and his son Aaron Wilkinson hired a boat headed to Bahía de las Gaviotas. When they were near the beach El Chileno, the boat made a […]

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Cozumel Mexico: passenger from cruise ship drowns while swimming at beach

Andrew Woofen from Florida was swept away as he entered a unsafe beach area of playa Punta Morena Cozumel. lapoliciaca.com reported that a passenger of the cruise ship Carnival Elation, drowned in a beach area on the east coast of the Cozumel. He entered a high risk area of the beach and was swept away, […]

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Ajuy Canary Islands: foreign tourist drowns, swept away by wave

carias7.es reported that a foreign tourist has drowned on Tuesday morning in Ajuy. The city was conducting a typical visit to the caves of El Puertito, fish sanctuary located within the natural monument, when a wave took him. Although the leeward coast sea looks calm on the windward majorero overflow causes the waves of over […]

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United States: Chinese tourist drowns during scuba diving mishap

As covered by huffingtonpost.com, “A woman died Sunday while diving with a Miami Beach scuba company, the same that reportedly left two divers stranded in open water in October 2011. The tourist was Chinese, didn’t speak English, and appeared nervous before the dive…” Read Article

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India: Two tourists drown in water rafting accident

As reported by himachalwatcher.com, “Two tourists drowned when their raft overturned in the Beas river near Seobagh area of Kullu district. Lalita Sharma, a resident of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh and Suresh Kumar, a native of Gaya in Bihar drowned in near Seobagh, about 5-km from Kullu, police said.” Read Article

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Egypt: British tourist drowns in the Red Sea

As covered by dailymail.co.uk, “A British man has died in the Egyptian holiday resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. The 50-year-old drowned while swimming off the Red Sea coast on Friday…Sharm el Sheikh is one of the main Red Sea resorts and attracts millions of tourists each year.” Read Article

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Tourist from Taiwan drowns near Kalbarri Australia

Heraldsun.com.au reported that a 39-year-old tourist was swimming in the river, near Kalbarri, 600km north of Perth, on Friday with his 37-year-old girlfriend when she started struggling and sought assistance from a nearby kayaker, a police spokeswoman told AAP. The kayaker helped the woman from the water, but as he was doing so the man […]

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Australia: British tourist drowns at Little Beach

As reported by abc.net.au, “A 54-year-old British man has drowned while swimming at a beach, east of Albany, on Western Australia’s south coast. Police say the man was swimming at Little Beach with his partner when he became distressed.” Read Article

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