Three tourists were killed and six others were injured when a taxi going to Rohtang Pass for sight-seeing rolled down at Rahla fall, about 26 km from here. The ill-fated taxi was carrying nine persons, including the driver and the guide. The three victims were identified as Sikander (26), Mohmad Afif (30), and Rihan (5). The injured are Beena (23), Juned (5), Umesh (7), Aflin (26), driver Bablu (25) and guide Rakesh (18). All the six seriously injured were admitted to the Lady Willingdon hospital in Manali. Balbir Thakur, Manali SDM, said the incident occurred about 6:30 am when the taxi carrying two families of tourists rolled down at Rahla fall on the Manali- Rohtang Pass road. Read Article
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Police are investigating the cause of death of two Canadian sisters found dead in their hotel room on Phi Phi Island yesterday afternoon. Lt Siwa Saneha of Phi Phi Island Police Station told the Phuket Gazette, “We received a report at about 9pm yesterday, that two tourists’ bodies were found in the same hotel room […]
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A coach driver whose tour bus plunged down a South African mountain killing 27 Britons has been convicted of causing their deaths, local prosecutors said today.Titus Dube, 41, pleaded guilty to a charge of culpable homicide in connection with the September 1999 tragedy, according to the chief prosecutor’s office in Nelspruit, capital of the Mpumalanga […]
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In a tragic road accident on Tuesday morning, at least nine persons, including eight passengers and the helper of a Puri bound tourist bus from Purosattampur Panskura of East Medinapur district in West Bengal, were killed after a lime stone laden speeding truck hit the bus from backside near Jamujhadi over bridge under Simulia police […]
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Three French tourists were killed Thursday and at least a dozen injured shortly after arriving in the Dominican Republic when the bus carrying them from the airport collided with a locomotive at the eastern end of the island, officials said. Amado Avila, director of Civil Defense in the tourist province of La Altagracia, said among […]
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High Mountain Unit of the National Police of Peru confirmed the death of 11 tourists (nine Korean and two Australians) and two crew of a helicopter that fell into a country’s Amazon region. The accident aircraft was found in the area called Pirhuayani after disappearing on the eve on his way Mazuco area in Madre […]
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A bus transporting tourists from St. Catherine Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula to Sharm-el-Sheikh (220 kilometers away) blew a tire yesterday (May 29) and rolled over several times, injuring some fourteen tourists from Russia, Germany, China and Egypt. COMMENT: Fortunately, most of those injured in the “accident” were severely bruised, although given the trajectory of […]
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Dehradun: At least 22 pilgrims from Madhya Pradesh were on Tuesday killed and 8 others injured when a bus in which they were travelling fell into Ganga river at Kodiyala in Tehri district, police said. The mishap occurred near Byasi this afternoon when the private tourist bus, carrying 45 passengers including 20 women, was going […]
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – A woman arrested in the daytime stabbing deaths of two Canadian tourists laughed, frowned, grimaced and repeatedly asked where her lawyer was during a court appearance on Tuesday. Antoinette Pelzer is accused of stabbing two Canadian women, ages 80 and 47, on Monday morning as they were walking in an area […]
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The unit suffered the accident near the Jomsom airport, one of the most dangerous in the world.It carrying three crew and 18 passengers, 16 of whom are Indians on their way to a popular pilgrimage center. Read Article
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