According to phuketwan.com, a Chinese tourist was killed when struck by a speedboat propeller while on a snorkeling day-trip from Phuket to Phi Phi today – the second Chinese tourist to die in the holiday region’s waters in two days. The man’s wife was photographed in anguish as she grieved over the body of Chen Peng, 36, at a hospital morgue today, with their Phuket holiday turned to horror. Read article
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Yahoo News Malaysia reports that one person was killed and four injured when a light aircraft coming from Chad crashed in northern Cameroon on Monday, airport authorities said. “Five people were on board, including two pilots and three passengers,” said airport director Michel Mbollo in the northern town of Ngaoundere. He said they were all […]
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Bizjournals.com reports that Arthur Dobson, a prominent Buffalo attorney, died following a bicycle accident while in Slovenia. Dobson, 66, died June 11 one week after being injured while on his annual summer bike trek with longtime friends Carl Montante Sr. and William Huntress. Dobson was injured while swerving to avoid a car. Read article
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Heraldonline.com reports that police said Monday that carbon monoxide poisoning likely killed an 11-year-old South Carolina boy this weekend and two other guests found dead in the same motel room almost two months ago. Emergency responders found carbon monoxide in the room where Jeffrey Williams of Rock Hill, S.C., died Saturday, Boone police said in […]
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According to a haberfx.net report, a Kazakhstani tourist was killed and 7 others onboard, of German and Russian origin, wounded after a safari SUV fell from a cliff during a safari tour in Antalya province. The accident took place near Hastumen village of Antalya’s Gebiz town in southern Turkey at about 1.30pm on Friday. A […]
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According to dcourier.com, a woman from the New Jersey area was killed Wednesday afternoon when she crashed her rented ATV. Nadiya Zaverbna, 33, was riding the quad near Loy Butte trial, near Forest Road 525 with her fiancé, who was ahead of her on another rented quad, Dwight D’Evelyn, sheriff’s spokesman, said. Read article
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Anchorage Daily News reports that a 66-year-old New Mexico cruise ship passenger was killed when a small sightseeing plane in southeast Alaska crashed on the side of a steep mountain, Alaska State Troopers said Wednesday. Thomas L. Rising of Santa Fe was among seven on board the Pacific Wings de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver that […]
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CBC.CA reported that a University of Calgary student has been killed while trying to climb a volcano in Ecuador. Danielle Kendall, 22, was struck by a chunk of ice the size of a car on Sunday, according to a South American news website. She was with a guided group scaling the Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador’s […]
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Dailymail.co.uk reports that a US citizen has been shot and killed in Jamaica after being caught in crossfire between police and robbers, including the country’s most wanted criminal. The identity of the man has not been released, and few details of the incident have come to light, but it is understood shots were fired when […]
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According to focustaiwan.tw, two people were killed, one was reported missing, and more than 80 were injured as of Sunday evening after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck central Taiwan earlier in the day, according to the Central Emergency Operation Center. A male tourist, identified as Liu Chin-lu, who was with a group of seven other […]
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