According to star-telegram.com, “Dan Risik was sitting comfortably in an aisle seat of a chartered bus Thursday morning, chatting with a friend and looking forward to a day at an Oklahoma casino. Seconds later, after the bus veered across a busy Irving freeway and crashed, he was lying on his side, trapped under a woman in a blood-soaked tangle of people screaming for help.” Read Article
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As reported by Eturbonews.com an Egyptian security official says two Argentinian tourists and their Egyptian driver have been killed in a road accident near the ancient city of Aswan in southern Egypt. The official says two other tourists were injured in the accident Friday when the tourists’ car collided with a truck along Aswan highway. […]
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As covered by coconutsbangkok.com, “Upon their arrival, police found a silver bronze pickup truck and a Toyota Corolla Altis sedan. They said that both drivers abruptly turned their steering wheel to run off the road, which caused the crash. The truck hit the teashop and two British citizens who were walking nearby. Michael Holmes, 68, […]
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As reported by themoscowtimes.com, “Investigators in the Kamchatka region have opened a preliminary check into the death of three tourists who froze to death during a mountain climbing expedition on the Kamchatka Peninsula, a news report said Monday.The bodies of the three tourists were found by rescue workers on a mountain pass on Monday morning, […]
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A floating restaurant crowded with dozens of patrons sank in the Tigris River in central Baghdad, leaving at least eight dead and several missing. “A boat belonging to the Lebanese Club in the Karrada area sank tonight while there were 80 people on board,” an interior ministry official said, reported Agence France-Presse. Read Article
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As covered by mwebantu.com, “THREE people have died in a Road Traffic Accident in Muchinga Province while five others have sustained injuries. Zambia Police Public Relations Officer Elizabeth Kanjela said that the accident occurred on 28th February, 2013 around 05:00 hours along the Great North Road south of Chinsali district.” Read Article
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NEAR LEXOR EYGPT At least 19 foreign tourists, including Britons, have been killed in Egypt after a hot air balloon crashed near Luxor, according to reports. .telegraph.co.uk reported that an official advised the Associated Press that after a fire and explosion on the baloon, it crashed into an agricultural field. Britons are reportedly among those […]
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balita.ph repported that seven people were killed and 34 others injured when a Manila-bound chartered tourist bus carrying graduating tourism students crashed head on with a delivery truck Thursday at around 11 p.m. along Marcos Highway in Taloy, Tuba, Benguet. The mishap occurred some 15 kilometers southwest of Baguio City and 234 kilometers north of […]
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nydailynews.com reported that a British couple killed in Thailand during round-the-world bicycle trek Peter Root and Mary Thompson, who were on a round-the-world cycling odyssey, died Wednesday when they were hit by a pickup truck in a province east of Bangkok. The couple left Britain in 2011 and had biked through Europe, the Middle East, […]
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British man (pilot), Swiss national, four Swedes, and two French tourists among the dead. Telegraph.co.uk reported that the group are understood to have taken off from an airstrip in the heart of the delta bound for an exclusive safari lodge just moments before their Cessna plane crashed back to earth and burst into flames. Moremi […]
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