Earlier today (April 11), the Tokyo High Court upheld the life sentence of Tatsuya Ichihashi, 32, a Japanese national who raped and killed Lindsay Ann Hawker, 22, a young British teacher who taught Ichihashi English in 2007, and later buried her battered body in a sand-filled bathtub. When Ms. Hawker disappeared, leads eventually led police to Ichihashi’s apartment in Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo, to find her naked body bound at the wrists and ankles in a bathtub filled with sand on Ichihashi’s apartment balcony. Read article
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One person was killed and 21 others injured when a bus carrying Swiss tourists crashed near the Turkish resort of Antalya. Switzerland’s Foreign Ministry said one Swiss tourist died and 19 others were injured, two of them seriously. Read article
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A 50-year-old woman has died after police officers ran a red light in pursuit of a stolen vehicle and hit her car in the northern suburbs of Perth. The woman was travelling with her 16-year-old daughter when her car was hit by a police vehicle at the intersection of Alexander and Morley Drives in Dianella […]
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Tourist helicopter pilot Matthew Goodine, 28, was killed on Friday (March 30) when his helicopter crashed near Grotto Mountain. Four British tourists (two men and two women) were also aboard the chopper at the time of the crash, but survived the event. According to The Calgary Sun, the cause of the crash is unclear, although […]
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There is a lot of controversy today about the seizure of the Carnival Triumph cruise ship in Galveston. Lawyers in Mississippi and Texas who are representing the family of a German woman killed on the Costa Concordia filed a lawsuit against Carnival in Galveston. In addition to the lawsuit, they filed a motion to obtain […]
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A Korean tourist is still nowhere to be found after going missing with another man who was later found drowned off the coast of the southern beach town of Vung Tau Thursday. According to a report on Vietnam News Agency Saturday, Son Yongin, 34, and Jung Sung Kyoon, 52, went missing while they were swimming […]
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An American tourist fell from his room on the 25th floor of a Pattaya condominium late Sunday night and was killed in an apparent suicide, police said. Police said Philip Joseph Queen, 53, apparently jumped from the balcony of his room on the Pattaya Beach Condominium at 10 minutes after midnight. Read article
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Only days after British tourist Judith Tebbutt was kidnapped and her husband killed at an upscale resort in Lamu in September, Kenyan tanks rolled into Somalia seeking to create a buffer zone against the bandits who had been operating with impunity on the nation’s doorstep. That was a decisive enough response to the repeated provocations […]
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A Police Inspector and a National Policeman have been arrested after knocking a German woman of her bicycle with their car and then driving off. The 64 year woman was killed at 10.25 am on Sunday as she was cycling with her husband in a group of cyclists on the Carretera de Cabo Blanco in […]
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A 44-year-old New York man was killed while snorkelling off the island of Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos Islands on Saturday March 24th, 2012. Police said Mark Wiley Lane, 44, of Brooklyn, New York, USA, was rushed to hospital by ambulance following the incident, which happened in the sea off the beach opposite the […]
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