The Xinhua News Agency said the vehicle was overloaded and officials are still investigating the cause of the accident in Songpan county in Sichuan province.Read Article
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The bodies of a man and woman recently found in northeastern Bolivia may be the remains of two French tourists who disappeared in the region last year, a senior Bolivian official said Saturday. Forensic experts were studying the remains in order “to determine, through DNA analysis, whether or not they correspond to the two missing […]
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The man who allegedly murdered Charles Jones in Thailand was a Talented Mr Ripley-type figure who preyed on gay tourists for cash, a close friend of the Kiwi said. Thai police yesterday arrested a 22-year-old Syrian named “Mohammed” for the brutal stabbing of Jones in the resort of Pattaya. Read Article
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A teenage Turkish waiter has confessed to the murder of two Northern Irish women following a row over his relationship with the daughter of one of the victims. The murdered women were named on Friday evening as Marion Elizabeth Graham, 54, and her friend Kay Dinsmore, 50, both from County Down. Read Article
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The Fire Department confirmed that at least four people died following the accident involving a tram in Santa Teresa, in the center of Rio de Janeiro, in the afternoon (27). The corporation reported that approximately 30 people were injured. The victims are being taken to the Hospital Municipal Souza Aguiar, also at the center. The […]
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Thirty mainly elderly German holidaymakers and their driver died today when a passenger train slammed into their coach in central Hungary, slicing it in half and dragging it down the track, police said. Read Article
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Two mountain climbers were killed on Friday and Saturday as a result of two separate accidents in the Pennine Alps mountain range in Switzerland, police said on Sunday. Valais Canton Police said the accident on Friday happened after a 43-year-old German tourist went mountain climbing alone on Lagginhorn, which has a maximum height of 4,010 […]
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Three people were killed on the Montenegrin coast last night, including a German tourist caught in crossfire during a gunfight, police have confirmed. Read Article
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Three members of a British family and their friend have been killed in a fatal road crash in Jamaica.Three others were injured when the group’s minibus collided head-on with a pick-up truck, according to police. Read Article
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ANTIGUA’S Attorney General has refused to rule out the death penalty for the killers of Welsh honeymooners Ben and Catherine Mullany. Kaniel “Sample Dan” Martin, 23, and accomplice Avie Howell, 20, could face the hangman’s noose after being found guilty of the killings on Wednesday. Read Article
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