According to thedailystar.net, a man was killed and 10 others were injured as a girder of an under construction bridge collapsed on a tourist bus at Hazipur ferry terminal point on Kuakata-Patuakhali road yesterday morning The dead, Faruque Akand, 45, of Lachaple village in Kalapara upazila, was going to Patuakhali in the bus. He was critically injured and declared dead on arrival at Kalapara Upazila Health Complex. Five of the injured–Feroza Begum, Jogodish Chandra, Rina Begum, Aklima, and Ismail Hossain–were admitted to the heath complex while the rest given first aid at the hospital. Later, Jogodish and Rina were shifted to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital for better treatment. Read article
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Three people were killed and 11 injured when a jeep ploughed through a crowd, crashed and caught fire in central Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the site of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989. Police evacuated and sealed off the square, which lies across a broad thoroughfare from the main gate of the Forbidden City, […]
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According to tvnz.co.nz, police are still searching for a second assailant following an assault on two French tourists in Napier. Police say the French couple, a 22-year-old man and woman, were attacked in their campervan in the Whakarire Ave carpark at the end of Westshore Beach in Napier about 10.45pm on Saturday. They were approached […]
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The BBC reports that dozens of people were killed in southern Laos when a plane crashed into the Mekong River. Foreigners from some 10 countries including seven from France were among the dead, as well as Laotian nationals. The plane belonging to state-run Lao Airlines crashed in bad weather just before it was due to […]
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Yahoo News reports that a powerful earthquake killed at least 93 people in the Philippines Tuesday as it generated landslides that buried homes, triggered stampedes of terrified people, and destroyed historic churches. Fifteen of the confirmed fatalities were in Cebu, the country’s second most important city and a gateway to some of its most beautiful […]
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According to mirror.co.uk, screaming tourists had to be rescued by passers-by when a bridge collapsed and dropped them into the water. The bridge, at the West Sea scenic spot of Lushan Mountain Bridge in China’s Jiujiang city, was newly built and still in trial use. Tourists ignored warnings from management staff who advised them that […]
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CNN reports that a logging truck collided with a passenger train on Friday afternoon in West Virginia, killing the truck driver and injuring 66 others, a local emergency official said. At least 12 people suffered serious injuries, said Randolph County emergency management director Jim Wise. The truck struck the train around 1:30 p.m. in the […]
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According to newindianexpress.com, thirty-four French tourists were today injured, four of them seriously, when a bus carrying them collided with a truck and overturned here. The bus carrying the tourists had left from a resort in Marugarh here when it met with the accident, police said. “The moment the bus reached a point near a […]
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Al Jazeera reports that a Russian tourist has been killed and 32 others injured after a bus overturned on its way to an elephant village in western Thailand, police said. Police Col Bandit Muangsukham says that 41 Russian passengers, along with a Thai guide and a driver, were traveling on the bus to Sai Yok […]
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AOL Travel UK reports that at least 12 people have been injured after the roof of a double-decker bus packed full of foreign tourists was torn off in Bangkok. The bus hit a height restriction barrier designed to stop tall vehicles using the flyover bridge on Phetchaburi Road in Bangkok’s Makkasan district, reports the Bangkok […]
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