PHUKET: A British expat resident and his Thai wife were brutally murdered at a small Thai tourist resort for 200 baht and a mobile telephone, police said today. Officers arrested the security guard, a chef and a local fisherman over the killing of Michael Raymond, 68, and his wife Suchada Bonkamdi, 52, early yesterday morning. Read article
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SIERRE, Switzerland (Reuters) – A bus carrying Belgian children home from a school ski trip crashed into the wall of a tunnel in the Valais region of Switzerland, killing 28 people, 22 of them children, police said on Wednesday. The bus, transporting 52 people, mostly school children aged about 12 from Lommel and Heverlee in […]
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Four people were killed and one person was missing Monday after an avalanche buried six foreign skiers in northern Norway, police said. One person was dug out alive and taken to a local hospital after the snowslide near Tromsoe on Norway’s Arctic coast, police spokesman Morten Pettersen said. Read article
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None of the three people should have been on the streets of Sarasota’s Newtown neighborhood at 3 a.m. last April 16. Shawn Tyson, a 16-year-old school dropout who had been released from jail less than 24 hours earlier, was supposed to be at his mother’s Newtown home. One judge wanted to keep Tyson in jail, […]
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The past weekend was particularly violent. Three persons were murdered from north to west but another brutal incident at high seas has the attention of the police department. A massive criminal investigation is underway over the rape of a sixty-one year old tourist and the stabbing of two others. There has been no official confirmation, […]
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High-profile attacks on Canadians in Mexico have put the popular tourist destination in the hot seat. But it may not be as dangerous a place for travellers as you think. On average, three Canadians for every 100,000 visiting Mexico are killed or assaulted per year, according to more than a decade’s worth of data from […]
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PETALING JAYA: A bus carrying 22 Indian nationals went out of control and overturned as it was coming down from Genting Highlands, killing two and injuring more than a dozen passengers. The victims Rajindra Kumar Agarwal, 67, a man, and Anita Aggarwal, 59, a woman died on the spot. Read article
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PHUKET: Four Phuket tourists have have been killed in a Saturday evening collision on the main road north of Phuket – a pileup that brought the total toll in that area to 14 dead in three horror smashes in just over a month. Five more tourists have been taken to hospital, some to Phuket, and […]
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A tourist bus crashed at the border town of Koh Kong on Tuesday killing two and wounded 44 others including three US nationals. A 22-year-old Russian tourist died immediately at the scene. Read article
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Dhaka, Feb 21 (UNB) – Four people were killed and 20 others injured in road accidents in Narsingdi and Comilla districts on Tuesday. In Narsingdi, three unidentified men died on the spot as a Dhaka-bound bus from Bhairab collided with a truck coming from opposite direction at 6:30pm, leaving 20 others injured, police said. Read […]
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