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Turkey: Second British tourist attacked within a week at popular resort town

According to mirror.co.uk, a second British tourist has been ­brutally beaten and hit over the head with a bottle at a popular ­Turkish resort just a week after another Brit was attacked there. The man was left half-naked and bleeding after he was savagely ­assaulted in the bustling coastal town of ­Marmaris. Believed to be Arron Saunders, 27, from London, he was treated by ­paramedics and a doctor at the scene of the attack on ­Thursday night. Read article

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Elephant attacks tourist car on safari in South Africa

According to metro.co.uk, a five-tonne male elephant smashes its way through the window of a car full of German tourists moments after fighting with another member of the herd. The angry animal gores its way through a side window as the panicked passengers shout: ‘Go, go, go.’ The attack – in Kruger National Park, South […]

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Turkey: Two British tourists drown, another injured in stabbing

According to travel.aol.co.uk, two British tourists have drowned at different beaches in popular Turkish province Muğla. Paramedics were called to Belcekiz beach in Oludeniz when 55-year-old holidaymaker Anthony Gissing was found floating in the sea without moving, Hurriyet Daily News reports. He was taken to shore before being dispatched to a hospital nearby but could […]

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Egypt: Locusts Swarms attacked tourist area in Sharm el-Sheikh

As reported by Egyptindependent.com, Locust swarms attacked Naema Bay in Sharm al-Sheikh on Wednesday, sweeping through streets, restaurants and bazaars across the thriving tourist hotspot. The Shura Council’s economic committee deputy Abdel Halim al-Gammal has criticized authorities’ tardy reaction in dealing with the pests, which also attacked Saint Catherine and Ras Mohamed and threaten species […]

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German tourist assaulted and robbed in Malaysia

According to nst.com.my, a German tourist, who had just arrived here from Singapore, was assaulted by two men who tried to rob him yesterday morning. Michael Peter Hem, 28, suffered cuts to his hands and legs, and fractured his right arm in the 12.30am incident which occurred near a budget hotel at the Ipoh old […]

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Australia: French tourist attacked with a brick by teens on a bus

Yahoo News Australia reports that two teenagers have been charged after allegedly hitting a tourist in the face with a concrete block on a Sydney bus. Police say the 28-year-old French tourist intervened in a fight on a bus at Bondi Junction around 12:30am on Sunday morning. The driver ordered a group of males off […]

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Tourist in Key West beaten by bar security

Sun-sentinel.com reports that Justin, a 32-year-old tourist from Orlando, had been inside Fat Tuesday’s bar on Duval St. in Key West when he slipped on a spilled drink around midnight last Thursday night, according to an incident report from the Key West Police Department. As another man, Eric, a 33-year-old tourist from Virginia, tried to […]

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New Jersey woman attacked in hotel by Miami Beach prostitutes

According to a Miami Herald report, Anna Burgese, the petite wife of a wealthy suburban Philadelphia homebuilder, claims in the federal lawsuit that as many as 10 prostitutes pounced on her in the hotel lobby on Jan. 19. They mistakenly believed that she was encroaching on their turf, according to Miami Beach police. Read article

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Brazil: German shot visiting friend in Rio de Janeiro

Thejakartapost.com reports that police in Rio de Janeiro say a German tourist was shot and injured during a visit with a friend to one of the city’s largest slums. A police statement said Friday that the 25-year old German was shot twice in the abdomen in the Rocinha favela and was carried by a local […]

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Israel: Ukrainian tourist assaulted by Palestinian boyfriend

According to a ynetnews.com report, a 47-year-old Palestinian with an Israeli citizenship was arrested in his home-town in the Palestinian Authority territory for allegedly assaulting his spouse, a Ukrainian tourist whom he met in Israel, and imprisoning her in his home. The suspect was arrested following the tourist’s complaint which related that after one of […]

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