telegraph.co.uk reported a German tourist died when he fell off a cliff while posing for a picture at the ancient site of Machu Picchu.
Oliver Park reportedly went into a restricted area near a ravine in the Peruvian Andes on Wednesday despite safety signs and warnings from wardens, officials said.
The 51-year-old lost his footing and while posing for a photograph of himself jumping as if in flight, the BBC reported. He slipped and fell 100 metres into the ravine, which is strewn with rocks and jungle, local media said …. Read Article
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Agence France-Presse/telegraph.co.uk reported Peruvian police pulled a South Korean tourist dead from under a waterfall in the Amazon jungle, days after he fell in while taking a photo of himself, police said on Monday. The man, 28-year-old Kim Jongyeob, slipped and fell 1600 feet under the waterfall in northeastern Peru last Wednesday, a local police […]
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telegraph.co.uk reported Italian prosecutors have launched a murder investigation into the death of an American university student whose blood-stained body was found floating in Rome’s Tiber river on Monday. Beau Solomon, 19, a finance student from Spring Green in Wisconsin, had just arrived in Rome for a five-week summer course at John Cabot University, a […]
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USATODAY.com reported The body of a 2-year-old boy dragged into the water by an alligator near a Disney resort has been found, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said Wednesday. The body of the toddler, vacationing with his family from Elkhorn, Nebraska, was found at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday by members of the sheriff’s office dive […]
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(CNN)A former U.S. Army officer who was part of a Vanderbilt University tour group was stabbed to death in a terror attack that left 10 others wounded in an old section of Tel Aviv, officials said Tuesday. Taylor Force, a first-year student in the graduate school of management, was killed, Vanderbilt chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos […]
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20minutos.com reported The alleged murderers of two young Argentineans who were at a popular surfing beach in Ecuador were apprehended and confessed to the crimes, the interior minister said Monday. In his Twitter account Minister Jose Serrano said that “we have apprehended the two authors of the murder of young Argentine Navy Menegazzo and Maria […]
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A United States citizen on vacation in Trinidad was killed in a car crash near the Trincity Mall traffic lights on Wednesday night. The deceased has been identified as Cecil White. His wife, who was also in the vehicle suffered severe injuries and remain in serious condition at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex. Police […]
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – foxnews.com reported police in the Dominican Republic say they have killed one of two men suspected in the slaying of an elderly German tourist during a robbery. The tourist was walking with his wife along the seawall Thursday evening in Puerto Plata when the couple was accosted by two assailants. […]
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German tourist killed and another seriously injured on Australian outback highway after they drove on the wrong side of the road and crashed head on into a 4WD A German tourist has died and another is in hospital with serious injuries The pair were travelling along the Arnhem Highway in Northern Territory Police alleged the […]
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telegraph.co.uk reported that images on camera of Briton killed by elephant in Thailand used as evidence against handler Mahout of elephant that trampled Gareth Crowe charged with negligence as animal rights campaigners call for an end to use of animals in tourism trade. The handler of a marauding elephant that trampled a British tourist to […]
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