PHUKET: After three days of searching, rescue workers this morning found the body of a man who disappeared on Friday after a horrific whitewater rafting accident in Phang Nga, north of Phuket. The Egyptian Embassy named the man as Hossamellein Mostafa Abdallas Hamada, 24, and confirmed to the Phuket Gazette today that the family had been notified and had already flown into Bangkok. Read article
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A British tourist died in a parachuting accident on the Greek island of Zante when he crashed into a cliff face and became stuck on the rocks, it has emerged. The man, named by the Foreign Office as Jake Simkins, was stuck for three hours as emergency services tried to rescue him from the cliff […]
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Judges this week decided to reopen an investigation into the death of the 20-year old Leeds University language student after police received a credible tip-off pointing the finger at “a man with a serious criminal record”. The suspect is believed to be already in prison on at least one other murder conviction. Read article
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Police say gunmen in the volatile southern Philippines opened fire on a packed minibus this week, killing four people and wounding another two. The attackers began shooting as the vehicle approached Parang town on Jolo Island early Tuesday. The area is a stronghold of al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf rebels notorious for bomb […]
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A French citizen has died in a traffic accident that was presented at kilometer 32 of the road connecting the city of Ibague with Alvarado in the north of Tolima. The victim approximately 56 years, who was identified as Yvec Chavanel, going to the edge of a high-powered motorcycle, which collided with a truck. Authorities […]
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A 56-year-old Ukrainian woman died and 16 other persons were injured after a motor coach filled with Ukrainian tourists was involved in a car crash. The Ukrainian tourists were returning from Bulgaria to Kiev. The car crash took place on the Focsani-Braila national road, between Maicanesti and Nanesti localities, Vrancea County. Read article
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A Utah woman and a Queens cabdriver were killed and the woman’s grandson was seriously injured early yesterday in a three-car smashup on the Long Island Expressway. Suzanne Nicholson, 60, and her grandson Gabe Larsen, 11, were headed from Kennedy Airport to a Manhattan hotel at about 12:30 a.m. when their cabby, Mohamed Hussain, rear-ended […]
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A Puerto Rico police official says a brother and sister from Florida have died in an apparent murder-suicide at a tourist hotel on the island. Police Capt. Diana Crispin identifies the pair as 28-year-old Kimberly Katherine Radcliffe and her brother 32-year-old Thomas Brian Radcliffe. Both are from Bonita Springs, Florida. […]
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As a follow-up on my recent postings concerning the tragic death of Irish exchange student Nicola Furlong, 21, Japanese police now believe that Ms. Furlong was sexually assaulted after she was strangled. Understandably, Tokyo police are also pursuing leads that suggest that the young woman’s drink may have been spiked, which led to the terrible […]
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A Czech tourist appears to have been sexually assaulted before she was killed on a forestry block near Waimate, police say. Dagmar Pytlickova, 31, who was known as Dasha, was found dead in the remote South Canterbury forest next to the body of Jason Frandi, from Waimate, on Sunday. Police believe she had been hitch-hiking […]
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