As reported by Bostonherald.com, officials say a hiker has been airlifted from Maine’s highest mountain after he was injured by a falling rock. Sixty-two-year-old Ned Hamara of Texas was hurt after a large rock fell on him Monday afternoon while he was hiking Mount Katahdin at Baxter State Park in Piscataquis County. Read Article
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According to nbcnewyork.com, a helicopter with four tourists on board, including two teenagers, was forced to make an emergency landing in the Hudson River near Manhattan’s West Side Sunday, authorities said. According to a city official familiar with the investigation, the helicopter’s pilot made a controlled landing in the water after the engine lost power […]
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Nwemail.co.uk reports that a Lake District road has reopened after a tourist was hit by a car in Bowness. A woman believed to be in her 60s was hit by a Vauxhall Corsa, driven by a 19-year-old man, near the Old England Hotel, in Bowness, at around 11am today. The woman, understood to be a […]
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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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Thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk reports that a teenage tourist suffered leg injuries after falling at Low Pike near Ambleside. The boy, aged between 13 and 18 and from Hamburg in Germany, slipped while walking on the fell shortly after 2pm on Monday. He was treated at the scene by Great North Air Ambulance medics and carried to a […]
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According to ynetnews.com, a Palestinian man was moderately injured and three police officers were lightly hurt in a car accident involving a private vehicle and a police car on Route 5 near Oranit. Read article
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Thehilalayantimes.com reports that police arrested a member of the gang that stabbed an Indian youth and robbed him of Rs 20,000 and a mobile phone near Swayambhu Chowk of the Capital on Friday evening. The suspect has been identified as Suprit Thulung (32) of Sitapaila. According to police, four to five persons including Thulung had […]
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According to heraldscotland.com, climbers have been warned mobile-phone signals in mountains cannot be relied upon for rescue calls after two Frenchmen were winched out of Glen Coe. The two were rescued during the night after getting trapped on the Three Sisters ridge at 2000ft. Rescue crews said the pair had “wasted a lot of time” […]
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As reported by Washingtonpost.com, a bus carrying 35 people plunged into a valley in western China on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, state media reported. The accident happened Tuesday afternoon when the bus was traveling to a tourist spot near Changji city in the region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Read […]
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According to smh.com.au, a British tourist has survived a fall from the 15th-floor balcony of an apartment in New Zealand. Tom Stilwell, 20, from Brighton, who is on a working holiday, is recovering in Auckland hospital after the fall from the block in the city centre. He was trying to climb on to the balcony […]
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