According to eturbonews.com, Phuket police believe a Chinese woman murdered her husband at a trendy new resort, then killed herself. Although the investigation is continuing, Lieutenant Jirawat Tanchern gave Phuketwan an account today of the double tragedy that shocked the island yesterday. The 16 surviving members of the tour party – including the dead woman’s brother – were due to head home to China today. Read article
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themalaymailonline.com reported that a tourist was shot dead this morning when gunmen stormed a resort in Pulau Pom Pom off the coast of Semporna on Sabah’s east coast, national police chief Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar has confirmed. Lim Min Hsu, 57, was found with two gunshot wounds along the corridor of the water village […]
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According to bernama.com, a group of gunmen shot dead a Taiwanese tourist and kidnapped his wife in a resort island of Pom Pom near Semporna early Friday. The 57-year-old man was found dead in a pool of blood with gunshot wounds in a room at a resort on the island, said Sabah police commissioner Datuk […]
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Times of India reports that a minor tussle over a matchbox between two groups snowballed into a dirty brawl eventually resulting in the death of a tourist from Tamil Nadu on Varkala beach.The incident occurred when Sooryanarayanan of Tirupur and his friends Murukesan and Sivakumar visited Blue Marine Beach Resort for a juice around 10.30pm […]
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thelocal.se reported that According to police, the man surrendered to the firemen without a struggle and was held by them until 6.45pm when the first police arrived, one hour and 15 minutes after they were first notified. “The person came out voluntarily from the bus and was arrested by the firefighters. He had already thrown […]
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As reported by Travel.aol.co.uk, a cliff climber has died after strong waves trapped her inside a sea cave in Swanage, Dorset. Lifeboat and helicopter teams fought for two hours to save her, but were beaten back by terrible weather conditions, and it is believed she drowned. The woman was coasteering – an extreme sport involving […]
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As reported by Saipantribune.com, a 33-year-old male Chinese tourist drowned outside of the designated swimming zone of Mañagaha Island on Saturday afternoon. Department of Public Safety Commissioner James Deleon Guerrero told Saipan Tribune yesterday that investigation is still ongoing and that Boating Safety investigators went back to Mañagaha yesterday for further investigation. DPS spokesman Sgt. […]
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According to thedailystar.net, a man was killed and 10 others were injured as a girder of an under construction bridge collapsed on a tourist bus at Hazipur ferry terminal point on Kuakata-Patuakhali road yesterday morning The dead, Faruque Akand, 45, of Lachaple village in Kalapara upazila, was going to Patuakhali in the bus. He was […]
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Eturbonews.com reported that, police have confirmed that a Russian tourist died in a swimming pool at the Royal Crown Hotel & Palm Spa Resort in Patong this morning (November 1) at around 4.30am. Pol Maj Jongsirm Preecha, an inquiry officer at Kathu Police, said he believed the Russian man died from falling in the pool […]
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According to MSN News, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday it’s investigating whether dense fog played a role in the deadly crash of a small plane at a Tennessee airport, where the wreckage went undiscovered for several hours. The Cessna 172 single-engine plane crashed sometime after 3 a.m. CDT Tuesday at Nashville International Airport. […]
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