An American tourist underwent emergency surgery to remove a kidney after he was stabbed in Florence’s main square in front of the city’s famous Duomo cathedral on Tuesday, adnkronos.com reports. Doctors said the 68-year-old tourist suffered knife wounds to a kidney and a lung but was no longer critical on Wednesday and was conscious and breathing unaided. Police have arrested a 37-year-old homeless man from the southern Italian city of Bari over the stabbing. Read article
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Guardian.co.uk reported that an American man was stabbed outside the US embassy in Cairo on Thursday, a security official said, in a rare attack on a US national in the Egyptian capital. The American was rushed to a nearby hospital and the motives for the assault were not clear. According to the Egyptian official, an […]
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As covered by news.com.au, “A PERTH woman has been raped while a knife was held to her throat during a violent robbery at the villa she was staying at with family in Bali. The 28-year-old was attacked in the early hours of Saturday morning after being woken by an intruder who had entered her room […]
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According to iol.co.za, “A Chinese tourist has been killed by a hippopotamus near Lake Naivasha in Kenya’s Great Riff Valley, medics said on Monday. The woman, said to be in her 30s, was attacked by a hippo mother after trying to take photos of a baby hippo, the Standard newspaper reported. ” Read Article
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According to pacificnewscenter.com, “Medical Examiner Dr. Aurileo Espinola says that a shark attacked a Korean tourist whose remains were found Sunday morning off Asan Beach.Dr. Espinola says that the man ‘was bitten by a shark and then drowned.’He said the man’s upper left arm and both legs were missing. Part of his intestines were also […]
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As covered by asianage.com, “A 65-year-old French tourist was robbed by a two people while she was walking near Dhobi Ghat at Saat Rasta on Saturday. One robber hit her on the neck and snatched her gold chain before fleeing. The Agripada police arrested one of the accused and recovered the gold chain from him. […]
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As reported by radionz.co.nz, “The 22-year-old man was assaulted and robbed by a group of men who befriended him at a bar in Paihia last Friday. Police have charged two Kawakawa men, aged 21 and 22, with aggravated robbery and a 20-year-old with being an accessory. Police say the response from local businesses and bars […]
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According to towleroad.com, “Stafilidis, who was accompanied by a friend, initially thought that the three masked men following them were going to rob them. However, the black-clothed men started yelling homophobic insults at Stafilidis and his friend, calling them “dirty faggots”, and started punching and kicking them on the head and body. They then fled […]
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As covered by eveningtimes.co.uk, “Police in the Canary Islands were holding a Moroccan man after a Scots holidaymaker was allegedly stabbed six times in the stomach. Clive Plows, 64, got into a fight with the suspect in a pub in Antigua, on the island of Fuerteventura, just after 4am on Monday. Both men had been […]
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On April 1, 2013, globo.com reported that a pair of men suspected of raping a foreign tourist were arrested on Saturday by local police. The two men are accused of having boarded a van in which the woman, 23, and her boyfriend were traveling Saturday. Authorities indicated that the tourists are Americans (U.S.). The two […]
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