AOL Travel UK reports that two New Zealanders have died after their plane crashed in South Africa during a tourist safari. Father-of-two Richard Primrose and John Walton both died when their Cessna 182 crashed into mountain in the remote area of Mpumalanga, 300km north east of Johannesburg, their destination. It is thought the pair were leading a safari with two other aircrafts full of tourists. Read article
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Pakistantoday.com reports that at least three persons, including two Pakistanis, were killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabia. According to sources, three persons including two Pakistanis and one Egyptian were heading to Madina Munawara from Riyadh to perform Umra when their car had an accident, killing all three on the spot. One of the […]
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According to chinadaily.com, two Chinese tourists have drowned while diving at a resort in Fiji, the Chinese embassy confirmed Tuesday. The two male Chinese nationals, 21, studying in the University of Waikato in New Zealand, drowned around 5:30 pm Monday while snorkel diving in the Nacula waters of the Yasawa Group of islands in Ba […]
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As reported by staradvertiser.com, two hikers died in separate fall incidents on Mariner’s Ridge this morning and above Kaaawa Saturday. Paramedics said a 70-year-old man died after falling while hiking the Mariner¹s Ridge Trail at about 9:45 a.m. The man apparently fell about 20-to-30-feet and was pronounced dead when paramedics arrived, according to an Emergency […]
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According to deccanchronicle.com, shocking reports of exploitation of distraught travelers have come to the fore in Uttarakhand with some stranded people forced to pay Rs 250 for a ‘paratha’ and Rs 100 for a small pack of chips. With their money and belongings washed away in the floods, hundreds of survivors did not get anything […]
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A newly wedded couple from Andhra Pradesh drowned when the ‘shikara’ boat capsized in the backwaters here. The body of the woman, Haimavathy (26), was fished out last evening and searchers came across the body of her husband, Venkitesh Sagar (30) this morning, police said. The couple, who hailed from Visakhapatnam, had got married only […]
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According to a khaleejtimes.com report, a series of fires across the country killed five people, including three children, in the capital and Fujairah on Monday. Two fires raged in tower blocks on Abu Dhabi’s Electra Street and the Tourist Club area claiming three lives, while 20 others suffered serious or minor injuries, police said. The […]
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According to chinadaily.com, thirty climbers from China, 24 male and 6 female have been registered to scale various summits this spring but two of them have already died, officials said on Wednesday. Li Xiaoshi, 58, from Taiwan, died while attempting the 8,516-meter-tall Lhotse Mountain. and Liu Xiangyang, 46, from Yunnan province, died while attempting the […]
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As reported by thanhniennews.com, “At least three Vietnamese were killed and 33 others were injured when a tourist bus ran off the road and fell into an abyss soon after crossing the Laos border Saturday afternoon. With help from Lao emergency units, all the victims have been brought back to Vietnam, where 28 of the […]
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As reported by rbth.ru, “A bus carrying Russian youngsters crashed near Antwerp in Belgium on Sunday, killing at least five people, Russia’s Federal Tourism Agency spokeswoman Irina Shchegolkova said. ‘According to information available to us, five have died: the bus driver, the tour guide, the head of the group and two teenagers while 17 are […]
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