According to news24.com, a Chinese tourist who fell into a gorge at Zambia’s famous Victoria Falls while taking pictures has escaped with only bruises, a tourism official said on Wednesday. The tourist named as Wang Shun Xue plunged into the shallow section of the gorge and survived with “only minor injuries,” John Zulu, manager of the National Heritage Conservation Commission in Livingstone, told AFP. Read article
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newstalkzb.co.nz reported that a German tourist has been rescued from Mt Ruapehu after he fell near the top of the Te Heu Heu Valley. The man fell around 11:30 this morning and slid some distance on the snow and ice before colliding with some rocks. As a result he has numerous cuts, and a broken […]
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Yahoo News New Zealand reports that a terrifying ordeal for a tourist left stranded on Mt Ruapehu after falling, fracturing his leg, and losing all means of communicating with emergency services. The German man fell near the top of the Te Heu Heu Valley around midday yesterday and slid for some distance on ice and […]
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According to AOL Travel UK, a British tourist is lucky to be alive after falling from a third-storey hotel balcony in Thailand after reportedly having her drinks spiked. Romany Mitchell, 21, fell 30ft after returning to her hotel following a night out in Phuket last Tuesday. Friends claim she had her drinks spiked in a […]
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AOL Travel UK reports that a Dutch tourist’s ear dissolved and a chunk of it fell off after she was bitten by a venomous Mediterranean recluse spider on holiday in Italy. The 22-year-old woman’s face and ear started swelling so she sought treatment at an Italian hospital. But once back in the Netherlands, the pain […]
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According to telegraph.co.uk, Mr Thompson, 58, a father of two originally from Wishaw near Glasgow, had been in Cancun for a family wedding when his round of golf came to a rather abrupt end. He told the Daily Mirror how he was attacked just after clipping a shot from a bunker onto the green. “My […]
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Eturbonews.com reports that Bahamas Police on the island Eleuthera say they are investigating a shark on a tourist, but released very little information. The elderly tourist had to be airlifted to Florida after he was attacked by a shark. The victim was a 77-year-old Canadian man. It was reported that he was on a fishing […]
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Timeslive.co.za reports that a tourist who survived a 90m fall from a viewpoint at God’s Window near Graskop has been moved from the ICU to a general ward in the Nelspruit Medi Clinic in Mpumalanga. Sipho Lubisi, 30, climbed over a railing at the famous tourist attraction on Saturday morning, lost his balance and fell […]
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Timesofisrael.com reported that, a hiker was moderately injured Wednesday afternoon after he trod on a mine inside an abandoned building in the Jordan Valley. The man, in his mid- 30s, stepped on the landmine while walking through an abandoned building in Moshav Yardena, south of the Sea of Galilee. According to Channel 2, the man’s […]
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Lefigaro.fr reports that a 5 year old child was “in critical condition” after an accident Wednesday around 4:50 p.m. on a theme park attraction accident Disneyland Paris, Seine-et-Marne. The child, who would have gone under a machine in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, was under medical transport to the Necker Hospital for Children in […]
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