Todayszaman.com reports that both legs of a 10-year-old British tourist were broken in a traffic accident in the southwestern holiday resort town of Fethiye, Muğla, on Monday. Julian and Sarah Lalor-Smith were going out for dinner with their twins, Terence and Courtney, and 10-year-old son, James Mark. While the family was walking to the restaurant, a car driven by Burak Özkan hit a parked minibus then ran into the young boy, pinning him against a wall. Read article
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According to ynetnews.com, a tourist was lightly wounded from a gun shot wound to the leg in the central city of Ramla. An initial police investigation revealed that the woman was traveling in a cab when a small explosion sound was heard, prompting the driver to pull over and noticed she was bleeding from her […]
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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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Yahoo news reports that an Egyptian tourist is in a critical condition after being hit by a police gas canister in a crackdown on anti-government protests in Istanbul on Friday, a doctors’ association said. The 34-year-old woman was undergoing an operation after suffering a brain hemorrhage, Istanbul Medical Chamber board member Huseyin Demirduzen told Reuters. […]
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Register-herald.com reports that National Park Service officials reported that a tourist was injured Sunday while whitewater rafting on the New River. Douglas Downs, 51, of Loveland, Ohio, reportedly suffered a back injury when his raft flipped over on a rapid known as “Double Z,” located on the Lower New River. Read article
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Thestar.com.my reports that an English tourist was killed after she was hit by a boat propeller while in Pulau Perhentian Monday morning. In the 10.20am incident, Madaline Jayne, 25, of Hereford, was killed while her friend, Simon James Rogers, 22, from Australia, was seriously hurt. Read article
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According to a nationmultimedia.com report, tusks of a 27-year-old elephant in the Ayutthaya Elephant Palace and Royal Kraal have been cut after the beast attacked tourists on Saturday, killing a woman. The elephant palace’s owner Laithongrien Meephan said he would fully support the attacked tourists and warned visitors to refrain from getting close to animals […]
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Thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk reports that a tourist who bit her boyfriend’s face at a Bowness hotel was given a suspended prison sentence. Kirsty Ditchfield, 22, of Wardle Brook Avenue, Hyde, came to the Lake District to enjoy a weekend away with her partner David Meecham on March 9. Read article
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Gmanetwork.com reports that a Russian man who found himself injured and stranded on Mayon Volcano after climbing it despite warnings from locals was finally rescued Thursday afternoon. Mark Yuchagaev, 28, was brought to a hospital in Legazpi City, Albay aboard a helicopter, radio dzBB’s Tuesday Niu reported. Col. Generoso Bolina, deputy of the Army’s 901st […]
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Viennatimes.at reports that a German tourist had a lucky escape after he decided to go underground to get a view of the Vienna sewers, and fell badly breaking several bones including his hip and his leg. Completely unable to move things looked bleak for Gunther Heidinger, 55, who admitted that over the noise of the […]
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