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Mexico: Tourist from Switzerland Raped, other tourists injured

Chiapa de Corzo
2-13-2016
esdiario.com.mx reported a young tourist from Switzerland was raped and her two companions, of Argentina, were seriously injured by two men in the ecotourism center of Chiapa de Corzo, they reported police and the Public Ministry sources. They explained that last Thursday, two men armed with knives intercepted foreigners when they were in the Belisario Dominguez bridge to visit the Canyon Sink. Around 16:00, foreigners asked three men who were in the place about where the piers were Sumidero Canyon. Read Article

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São Paulo Brazil: Assailant shot in assault on tourist

According to Globo, Brazilian military police opened fire in the capital city São Paulo this Tuesday (23), breaking up an attempted armed assault. The victim, a non-Brazilian tourist, was walking along Rua Oscar Freire in the upscale Jardins neighborhood when two men reportedly arrived on a black motorcycle and attempted to steal the tourist’s watch. […]

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India: Man detained in attempted rape of German tourist at resort

Thiruvananthapuram: Kovalam police on Thursday arrested a 28-year-old man for attempting to rape a tourist from Germany at a resort here. The police identified the accused as Nizar of Cheruvathoor, Kasaragod. Police said the incident happened in the early hours of Thursday. He knocked at the door of the room occupied by the tourist and […]

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Dominican Republic – German tourist murdered in robbery

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – foxnews.com reported police in the Dominican Republic say they have killed one of two men suspected in the slaying of an elderly German tourist during a robbery. The tourist was walking with his wife along the seawall Thursday evening in Puerto Plata when the couple was accosted by two assailants. […]

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U.S. Tourist Brutally Attacked, Murdered in Granada

abcnews.go.com reported aA machete-wielding man attacked a U.S. tourist couple as they walked along an isolated beach on Grenada, killing the woman, police on the Caribbean island said Tuesday. Jessica Lewis Colker, 39, of Atlanta, was found dead after her husband ran to get help following the attack, which occurred around noon Sunday on a […]

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Thailand: Video on Facebook shows alleged assault on foreign tourist

pattayone.net reported (Pattaya) A video was posted on Facebook over the weekend depicting an alleged assault on a foreign tourist on Walking Street, which prompted a Police investigation. The incident occurred at 4am on 9th January in front of the Marine Discotheque on Walking Street and resulted in a French tourist being knocked-out by a […]

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South Africa: Shark Goes After Tourist in Cage off coast

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Edinburgh Scotland: Tourist stabbed with syringe after not giving beggar money

dailymail.co.uk reported a tourist had to be hospitalised after he was stabbed in the stomach with a dirty syringe on Edinburgh’s iconic North Bridge by a beggar who asked for change. When the 36-year-old man responded that he did not have any cash, he was stabbed with a used needle. After the attack the injured […]

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Cyprus: Drunk Russian Tourist alleges attacked in ambulance

cyprus-mail.com reported a 47-year-old Russian tourist in Ayia Napa has claimed he was attacked and robbed by the driver and nurse of an ambulance that was called to transfer him to a private hospital when he was drunk. The tourist, staying at a hotel in Ayia Napa, reported that on Saturday he was picked up […]

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Daytona Beach Florida: Strip Club Manager, two bouncers arrested for beating, robbing tourist

WESH.comDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —Authorities have charged a strip club manager and two bouncers with beating and robbing a tourist. The men were arrested late Saturday following the Oct. 4 incident at Lollipop’s Gentlemen’s Club in Daytona Beach. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports a 55-year-old man from Omaha, Nebraska, was left bleeding in an alley with […]

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