npr.org reported The man who opened fire on tourists at a Tunisian beach resort, killing 39 and wounding 36 others, has been identified by the country’s prime minister as a 23-year-old aviation student studying at the nearby University of Kairouan.
Premier Habib Essid also said that he believed most of the tourists killed in Friday’s attack at the Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Sousse, a popular beach resort on Tunisia’s Mediterranean coats, were British.
Britain’s junior Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood said today that 15 British nationals were confirmed to be among the dead. Tunisian officials said a German, Belgian and Irish tourist were also among the 39 killed on Friday. Read Article
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thelocal.es reported the bodies of a British man, along with a woman believed to be his Spanish wife and his children have been found stabbed to death in Gibraltar. A British family of four, including two children, have been found stabbed to death in Gibraltar, local media reported on Monday. The Royal Gibraltar Police have […]
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dw.de reported more than a dozen trekkers(many are foreigners) have been killed in a snowstorm and avalanche in the Himalayas. Officials said a further 100 people “remain out of contact”. At least 12 trekkers were killed in treacherous weather conditions in the Himalayas on Tuesday evening. Some news agencies had put the death toll higher, […]
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travelandtourworld.com reported an overloaded bus in Nepal travelling from Jogbuda to Dhangadi in the Doti district about 800km west of Kathmandu met with an accident. It fell off a road into a gorge killing 29 people and leaving a dozen others injured. The people in the bus were tourists who were travelling to meet their […]
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imagen.com.mx reported today at least six Mexican tourists died and 25 others were injured to the bus that traveling in the Sinai peninsula, northeast of the Egyptian capital, official sources reported. The accident took place on the route between the monastery of Santa Catarina and the Martyr Ahmed Hamdi tunnel, about 20 kilometers from the […]
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bbc.com reported police in Chile have found the bodies of two extreme skiers who had been missing since an avalanche struck a mountain in southern Chile on Tuesday. Canadian Jean-Philippe Auclair, 37, and Swede Carl Andreas Fransson had been hiking the 3,700m-high (12,200ft) San Lorenzo mountain in Patagonia when they were swept away by the […]
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Theguardian.com reported Canberran Kurt Steel among eight foreigners killed when bus ran off highway en route from Salar de Uyuni to La Paz. An Australian was among 10 people killed in Bolivia when a bus returning to La Paz from the Salar de Uyuni salt flats ran off the highway and crashed, police said. Police […]
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dailymail.co.uk reported two British medical students were stabbed to death in Malaysia yesterday following an argument in a bar. Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger, both 22, were reportedly knifed by a mob of local men who were high on drugs and had accused the Britons of being too noisy. The fourth-year Newcastle University students had […]
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AFP reported – KABUL, Afghanistan – A group of gunmen stopped two cars with 15 tourists traveling in one of the central provinces of Afghanistan, and shot all of them at the side of the road, Agence France-Presse reported, citing local authorities. Read Article
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BODIES FOUND NEAR POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATION OF BOQUETE bbc.com reported the parents of two Dutch women who went missing in April while travelling in Panama have confirmed the two are dead.Local prosecutor Betzaida Pitty said so far no-one was being investigated in connection with their deaths. Ms Kremers and Ms Froon were last seen on […]
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