dailymail.co.uk reported a drunk tourist cheated death after scaling a barbed wire fence of a crocodile enclosure at a Mexican holiday resort in Cancun. Paramedics say American tourist Matthew Eldsberry, 27, was attacked on Wednesday by one of the reptiles after ignoring warning signs in English and Spanish to enter the off-limits area. He was bitten in the left leg and right hand, reports Sispe.com. Read Article
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The 54-year-old Canadian woman, who was on a rental scooter, was hurt at about 10.15am today on South Road in Southampton near Turtle Place. No other vehicles were involved. Read Article
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At least 44 people have been killed and over 200 injured in road mishaps across the valley in less than a month. With no letup the unprecedented increase in the road accidents continues to claim precious lives in Kashmir valley almost every day. Read Article
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Forty people were injured, four of them seriously, in a collision between a high-speed TGV and a regional train near the southwest French city of Pau on Thursday, authorities said. French authorities say that the two trains were carrying a total of 238 passengers at the time of the collision. The local Pyrenées-Atlantiques prefectural spokesman […]
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A theme park outing went horribly wrong in Spain when a British tourist, Jamie Norman, had his face smashed open while riding a waterslide at Aqualandia, in the resort of Benidorm. He had been standing in a capsule 33 metres high and it was on his third go that things went wrong. The slide is […]
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globalnews.ca reported an Ontario family’s idyllic vacation in the tropics might have ended in tragedy were it not for a mix of luck and knowing how to keep calm in a crisis. Jonathan and Heather Hubble, along with their 11-month-old daughter, travelled to Barbados in early March. Jonathan, making his way downstairs from the other […]
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According to CNN, a lightning strike killed three people on a beach in Argentina Thursday and injured 22 others, state media reported. “We were hiding in a tent to take shelter from the storm when we felt an explosion, and then I saw my friend thrown to the ground,” Rafael Viñuela told the state-run Telam […]
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According to nationmultimedia.com, police have arrested 11 suspects, most of them minors, for assaulting and seriously injuring a French tourist, in the seaside town of Hua Hin. Simonivet Pou, 26, was attacked in one of the town’s beer bar zones on New Year’s Day after he tried to help another foreigner in a street brawl. […]
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wbaltv.com reported that a tourist in Australia nearly drowned after she fell off a pier while browsing Facebook on her phone. The woman was walking along a bay in Melbourne on Monday night when she became distracted by something in her Facebook newsfeed and plummeted into the water below, The Associated Press reported. Read Article
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According to ynetnews.com, a 31-year-old Russian tourist on vacation with his partner at a hotel in Netanya has been arrested for allegedly attacking her and threatening to kill her. In the examination, he admitted that he argued with her, but said that his partner attacked him and bruised him. He is being detained for further […]
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