As reported by bangkokpost.com, six members of a group of Dutch tourists, four of them children, were slightly injured when a long-tailed boat carrying them on a sightseeing tour along the Chao Phraya River and canals hit a bridge pylon in Nonthaburi‘s Bang Kruai district on Tuesday. The four children, aged 13, 11, 10 and 2, were accompanied by a Dutch man and a woman when their boat, driven by Tawat Promchart, 60, rammed into the foundation pillar of a bridge crossing Bang Kruai canal near Wat Chalor pier shortly before noon. Read article
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Perthnow.com.au reports that three people are being questioned over a gang attack on four tourists in Northbridge last night, which police believe was racially motivated. Two of the tourists, a Swedish couple aged 35 and 22, had only arrived in Perth yesterday, a few hours before they were attacked. The Swedes and a New Zealand […]
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Interfax.co.uk reports that nine Ukrainians injured on Sunday in a road accident in Vitebsk region in Belarus are in local hospitals, with eight of are in a serious condition. “As of Monday morning, of the nine injured who are in hospital, eight are in a grave condition,” Interfax-Ukraine learned at the Foreign Ministry’s press service […]
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The Washington Post reports that an Italian tour bus plowed through cars, crashed through the side wall of a highway bridge and plunged into a ravine, killing at least 38 people, authorities said Monday. Rescuers wielding electric saws cut through the twisted wreckage of the bus looking for survivors overnight, and state radio quoted a […]
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Euroweeklynews.com reports that at least 20 people were injured, five seriuosly and nine have been killed when a bus came off the road as it travelled downhill near Avila northwest of Madrid, trapping several passengers in the wreckage, emergency services said. It is not yet known what caused the accident, although early indications are it […]
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The BBC reports that nineteen people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a lorry in central Thailand, reports say. At least 20 more people were injured in the incident, which took place in Saraburi province early on Tuesday. The double-decker tour bus – which was travelling from Bangkok to Roi Et […]
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KTVU in San Francisco reports that a woman remains hospitalized with serious injuries Monday in the wake of an accident last week involving a double-decker tour bus that ran into a low-hanging wire in the Richmond District. Four people were sent to the hospital Friday after a sight-seeing tour in San Francisco took a devastating […]
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According to upi.com, summer is amusement park season. But the experience was marred for a group of visitors to Ohio’s popular Cedar Point park, when the boat on their water ride rolled backward down a hill and landed upside down in the water, the Sandusky Register reported Friday. Operators of the ride, called “Shoot to […]
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ABC News reports that one tourist was killed and 18 others were injured Sunday by falling rocks at a scenic site in northern China, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Rocks that may have been loosened by recent heavy rains crashed through a cliff-side walkway and fell onto the heads of a group of tourists […]
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La Croix reports that a car accident killed Wednesday morning July 17 in Guyana, a girl of the parish of Saint-Léon de Paris (XVth district) came to participate in the World Youth Day in Rio with the group from the diocese of Paris . At 7: 30 am Eastern Time Cayenne – 12: 30 pm […]
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