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Turkey: German tourists killed, injured in bus accident

seattlepi.com/ap – Turkey’s official news agency says three German tourists have been killed and 10 injured in a bus accident at a popular tourist destination.

The Anadolu news agency said a tourist bus tipped over Saturday after hitting a palm tree on a traffic island in the southern Antalya province, killing three Germans. Read Article

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Belize: Six tourist from France involved in tourist van crash

guardian.bz reported It happened on Monday, February 1, sometime after 3 p.m. Ferguson was driving a grey 2-door Ford F-150 pick with extended cab. He was traveling with 44-year-old Daisy Olivera of Belize City and two minors as his passengers. They were heading from the direction of Belmopan to Hattieville, and for some still unknown […]

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Egypt: Three foreign tourists stabbed by suspected IS militants at hotel

bbc.com reported three foreign tourists have been stabbed by two suspected Islamic State militants who stormed into a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Hurghada. The attackers, armed with knives, were shot by police at the Bella Vista hotel after they attacked two Austrian guests and a Swede, officials say. One assailant was killed […]

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Honduras: Students from U.S. on medical mission perish in bus crash, numerous wounded

NYTIMES.com reported three Columbia University students on a volunteer medical mission to help the poor and sick in Honduras were killed on Wednesday in a bus crash that also left at least a dozen other students injured. The students were traveling on a road east of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, when their bus veered off […]

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Kuala Lumpur: Man Killed, tourists injured in tourist district from grenade explosion

scmp.com reported oOne dead and a dozen injured, including two Chinese nationals, in blast outside a pub in bustling tourist district of Kuala Lumpur. A man was killed and a dozen others wounded, including two Chinese nationals, when a hand grenade exploded early yesterday in a tourist section of Malaysia’s capital. Police suspect the attack […]

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Galapagos Islands: Tourists from U.S., Europe injured in bus accident

eluniverso.com reported ECU-911 system reported yesterday that five foreign tourists are recovered, two Englishmen, an American, a German and a Finn, injured in an accident on a bus type chiva in Isabela island, Galapagos, last Friday on the route of the Sierra Negra volcano. They were going with other 13 occupants: foreign driver, a guide […]

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Bolivia: Eight Tourists Killed, dozens injured in bus crash

Theguardian.com reported Canberran Kurt Steel among eight foreigners killed when bus ran off highway en route from Salar de Uyuni to La Paz. An Australian was among 10 people killed in Bolivia when a bus returning to La Paz from the Salar de Uyuni salt flats ran off the highway and crashed, police said. Police […]

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Belize: Gun accident injures two tourists

sanpedrosun.com reported that…Martinez said that it was a negligent discharge, meaning that the firearm accidentally went off. An eyewitness, who was one of the many passengers waiting to board a water taxi, told The San Pedro Sun that a firearm belonging to a businessman from Caye Caulker Village fell to the ground and several shots […]

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France: Boulder Crashes into tourist train in Alps, at least two killed

An enormous boulder hurtled off a mountain and smashed into a tourist train in the French Alps on Saturday, derailing it on the mountainside and killing two passengers, officials said. Nine people were injured. globalnews.ca reported that the force of the boulder caved in the side of the train, which takes a leisurely three hours […]

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Kenya: grenade attack injures at least ten at tourist resort

monitor.co.ug reported …Mombasa- At least 10 people have been injured in a grenade attack at a Kenyan tourist resort south of the port city of Mombasa, police say. Attackers hurled the device into the Tandoori bar in the town of Diani in the early hours of yesterday. Read Article

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