Fulano.infor reported PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Quintana Roo – A foreigner was brutally beaten by a taxi driver early Tuesday morning on colonia Colosio, and then had his belongings stolen. Sebastien “N,” originally from France, had bruises and fractures which required emergency operations. The visitor said he was on vacation in this tourist destination when he decided to go out for entertainment, but in order to return to where he was staying, he caught a taxi on avenida Decima at 12 Norte, in colonia Centro, at 3AM. Upon arriving at calle 66 and Quinta Avenida, the taxi driver started to beat him, leaving him semi unconscious, and the stole his belongings. As the taxi driver fled in his car, the tires ran over the tourist’s right leg, fracturing it. Read Article
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The Foreign and Commonwealth office has warned tourists against all but essential travel to parts of Malaysia following a number of attacks involving people travelling in the area. Heavily armed gunmen recently killed a policeman and kidnapped another at the Mabul Water Bungalows Resort on the island of Mabul. Between six and eight masked gunmen […]
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dailymercury.com.au reported… A FRENCH backpacker woke to find a drunken stranger touching her intimately as she slept in a hostel room with her fiance, Gympie Magistrates Court was told yesterday. The woman initially thought it was her fiance fondling her, but was distressed to wake and find it was someone she had never met, the […]
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dailymail.co.uk reported The British backpacker who was viciously beaten up in Bundaberg, Queensland, on Saturday night has spoken for the first time about the ordeal and admitted only now does he realise how serious the attack was. Speaking to MailOnline from his hospital bed, the talented young footballer, who has been traveling around Australia since […]
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odt.co.nz reported… The shooting happened just before 4pm local time in a park near the World Cup stadium, in the city of Mendoza, where Mr Heyward was staying. He was walking with an Australian woman and a French man when he was attacked, said Security Ministry sources in Mendoza. As he grappled with the thieves […]
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globalnews.ca reported an Ontario family’s idyllic vacation in the tropics might have ended in tragedy were it not for a mix of luck and knowing how to keep calm in a crisis. Jonathan and Heather Hubble, along with their 11-month-old daughter, travelled to Barbados in early March. Jonathan, making his way downstairs from the other […]
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dailymail.co.uk reported that a young British tourist has been found generic Citalopram murdered in horrific circumstances at the Great Wall of China. Graduate Tom Dawson, 24, had had his throat propecia pills cut and suffered multiple head wounds. It is believed he may have been killed for his camcorder, which had vanished along with other […]
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According to nationmultimedia.com, police have arrested 11 suspects, most of them minors, for assaulting and seriously injuring a French tourist, in the seaside town of Hua Hin. Simonivet Pou, 26, was attacked in one of the town’s beer bar zones on New Year’s Day after he tried to help another foreigner in a street brawl. […]
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According to ynetnews.com, a 31-year-old Russian tourist on vacation with his partner at a hotel in Netanya has been arrested for allegedly attacking her and threatening to kill her. In the examination, he admitted that he argued with her, but said that his partner attacked him and bruised him. He is being detained for further […]
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As reported by Ctvnews.com, a man has been rescued after spending three months in a remote forest during which he survived a bear attack, and wound up emaciated and clinging to life. Police are sharing the improbable story of 44-year-old Marco Lavoie, an experienced hiker who set off on what was supposed to be a […]
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