According to dailymail.co.uk, a British man has died after being involved in a lift accident while on holiday in Barcelona. Pub manager Joe Smith, 24, of Leicester, died following an accident in a lift on Tuesday, it was revealed today. It was unclear how the accident happened or exactly where in the Spanish city it occurred. Read article
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News.com.au reports that an American doctor has been trampled to death by an elephant, days before he was due to take up a new executive position. Thomas McAfee, 58, was on a luxury safari in Africa when he was killed by the charging elephant, the Daily Mail reports. McAfee, who was a dean at the […]
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Hurriyet Daily News reports that two suspects were arrested over the murder of a Swiss tourist on Sept. 1 in Istanbul’s Sarayburnu neighborhood, according to Doğan News Agency. Jurg Stephan Zuppiger was reportedly stabbed to death Sept. 1 in the morning hours after attempting to break up a fight between a couple or several others. […]
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Dailymail.co.uk reports that a British tourist has been arrested on suspicion of battering his father to death in a brutal fight at a Spanish camp site. The 45-year-old, named in the Spanish press as Ian Bennet, allegedly launched into a vicious assault on his 69-year-old father, identified locally as Douglas Bennet, in the early hours […]
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According to AOL Travel UK, a 24-year-old tourist is thought to have been killed by a crocodile while swimming in a river near Darwin, northern Australia. The man went swimming with a friend at Mary River, an Outback tourist destination 70 miles south east of Darwin. The friend reported the incident to staff where they […]
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Buffalonews.com reports that a 76-year-old tourist from Quebec was pronounced dead at the scene after he, his wife and their grandson were struck by a pickup truck as they crossed Niagara Parkway south of Murray Street about 10 p.m. Tuesday, Niagara Regional Police reported. The victim’s 75-year-old wife was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, while their […]
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As reported by Dailymail.co.uk, a young German tourist has died in a hospital in Maui, Hawaii, one week after she lost her right arm in a horrific shark attack. Lana Lutteropp, 20, had been on life support and in ‘very critical condition’ at Maui Memorial Medical Center since she was pulled from the water last […]
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As reported by Tvnz.co.nz, a 19-year-old man from Chile has died after falling down a waterfall in New Zealand. The man was believed to have been taking photos when he slipped and fell about 160 metres at Bowen Falls in Fiordland yesterday. Read article
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According to theepochtimes.com, a 50-year-old German tourist was killed Sunday in a gondola crash in Venice, Italy, according to Sky News. The man, his wife, and three children, and the gondolier fell out of the gondola as it collided with a ferry near the Rialto bridge and the man was likely crushed between the gondola […]
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Nepalnews.com reports that a tourist bus on Thursday met with an accident in Bhalam VDC of Kaski near Pokhara injuring 35 passengers, of which 23 were international tourists. According to police, the accident occurred suddenly, as the bus skidded slightly off the road. The international visitors were there to inspect and assist Bhalam primary school […]
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