According to leif.be, a German bus carrying 55 people crashed into the back of a truck in the night from Friday to Saturday, on the A6, in Saône-et-Loire, killing two and causing four serious injuries, which we learned from the firefighters and the prefecture. The two dead were the bus driver and a companion, said the prefecture of Saône-et-Loire. Four other people were injured, two seriously. All were transported to area hospitals. The bus from the region of Cologne (West Germany) was carrying young people traveling to the Costa Brava in Spain, according to firefighters. Read article
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According to ABC News, Russian media report that a boat being piloted by a captain suspected of being drunk has crashed into a barge, killing four people and wounding 49. The Interfax news agency, citing regional police and emergency services, says the crash occurred Saturday on the Irtysh river, 10 kilometers from the Siberian city […]
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Thejakartaglobe.com reports that seven foreign tourists were injured after a boat caught fire near Padangbai harbor in Bali on Thursday. The Ocean Star Express I boat, which transported people from Bali to neighboring Lombok island, was carrying 32 passengers — all of whom were foreign tourists — when the boat caught fire not far from […]
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As reported by Timesofmalta.com, a 23-year-old French woman was injured this afternoon during a jump into the sea off the Dwejra arch in Gozo. The woman was in a group of tourists visiting the island. The incident happened at about 5 p.m. Read article
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According to scmp.com, two people were killed and several seriously injured on Monday when two buses, one Norwegian and one Swedish with foreign tourists aboard, collided in western Norway, local authorities said. The NTB news agency said that a woman from Norway and a woman from Taiwan had died. The frontal collision took place late […]
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According to khaleejtimes.com, a British father and son were killed instantly on Friday after being hit by a car on a Sharjah road. Four other members of their family were injured, police said. The latest tragedy puts the Eid weekend road death toll at eight, the biggest ever to be reported during the holidays in […]
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Eturbonews.com reports that tourists to the West Java in Indonesia were urged to obey the regulations and not to swim out into the sea. If the tide is high and the night falls, tourists may not swim or be in the water. As many as 60 tourists were stung by jellyfish at Pelabuhanratu Beach, West […]
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The St. Petersburg Times reports that Thai police said Saturday that 28 Russian tourists were injured after bus they were riding on crashed into a small hill near a popular tourist site. Police Col. Bandit Muangsukham said that 44 Russian passengers, along with three crew members, were traveling to a cave in Kanchanaburi province on […]
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RFI reports that a tour bus has crashed through a barrier and overturned in southern France, killing two tourists and injuring 30 others. Police say the Eurolines bus carrying 44 passengers was travelling from Marseille to Murcie in Spain when it broke through the crash barrier and overturned on a highway near Fitou, in the […]
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As reported by Standardmedia.co.ke, three Spanish tourists died on Friday after a van they were travelling in collided with a truck at Ngokomi on the Nairobi-Mombasa highway. One of the tourists, a man, died on the spot while two others, both women, succumbed to their injuries at Sultan Hamud Sub District Hospital where they had […]
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