Beijing: Six tourists were killed and more than 30 others evacuated after a flash flood inundated a mountain ravine in northwest China. The flash flood, triggered by torrential rains in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, hit the Leek Ravine in the Helan Mountain which borders Inner Mongolia’s Alxa League yesterday, state-run Xinhua news agency said.
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Calp Ends Hotel in Alicante, Spain for the outbreak pneumonitis Legionella bacteria. Last February three British tourists between 73 and 78 years died and today 3 and 5 Spanish Belgian undergoing treatment. The ‘Health Department’ of Valencia announced yesterday that were detected 8 cases of Legionella pneumonia “with spatiotemporal relationship between them,” with a common […]
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Two German tourists and two pilots were killed when their airplane crashed Wednesday in Kenya’s renowned Maasai Mara national park, with at least three other tourists badly injured, police said. “Four people died on the spot, while three others were seriously wounded,” said local police chief Peterson Maelo. “Those injured have been taken to Nairobi […]
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Four people were killed and 28 injured when a hot-air balloon carrying tourists, including children, caught fire and came down near the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Thursday, the police said. The balloon was still in flames when the firefighters arrived at the scene of the crash, firefighters’ chief Tomaz Kucic told the official STA news […]
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A FIRE fire ripped through a nightclub popular with foreign tourists in Thailand early today, leaving at least four people dead and more than 20 others injured, officials said. Hospital workers said foreigners were among the casualties in the blaze at the Tiger disco on the island of Phuket, where rescue workers pulled the charred […]
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KANPUR: Five pilgrims including a minor were killed and 18 other injured when a tourist bus rammed into a stationary truck under the Sikandara police station in Ramabainagar district on Tuesday. The injured have been admitted to district hospital, where the condition of few was stated to be critical. Read article
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Three tourists, all women, were killed and six injured in a blast inside a tourist bus, which government said was the result of a gas cylinder blast. The bus, a Tempo Traveller, was heading to Pahalgam, a well-known tourist resort when a sudden explosion tore through it at Zuripora near Anantnag town. Read Article
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145 people had been killed in last week’s ferry disaster in the Indian Ocean, a day after the operation to find survivors was called off, authorities in Zanzibar said on Sunday. The overcrowded MV Skagit/Kalama, which had also been carrying some foreigners, was en route to Zanzibar, a popular tourist destination, from mainland Tanzania last […]
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SMOKE billows from a bombed airport bus yesterday after terrorists killed six Israeli holidaymakers just off a plane to Bulgaria. Dozens were rushed to hospital in the horror — blamed by outraged Jews on Iran. Read article
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At least six people were killed and several others injured when a bus plunged into a deep ravine in Kahuta’s suburban area of Punjab on Tuesday morning. According to reports, the bus was carrying at least 50 people and the accident occurred due to over speeding. Read article
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