CNN.COM – A spokesperson for the US State Department confirmed the deaths of “multiple US citizens.”
“We express our condolences to all those affected by this tragedy. We are in contact with Costa Rican aviation authorities and will continue to monitor the situation,” the spokesperson said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash, which happened Sunday afternoon in Nandayure, a town in Guanacaste province on the Nicoya Peninsula, on Costa Rica’s western coast.
Authorities said Sunday they were focusing on recovering the victims’ bodies and would begin an investigation into the cause of the crash Monday.
The plane took off from the Punta Islita Airport at 12:10 p.m. Sunday bound for Costa Rica’s capital, San Jose. Officials received reports of the crash around 12:20 p.m., 10 minutes after takeoff, CNN affiliate Teletica reported, citing civil aviation authorities. Read Article
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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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huffingtonpost.com/By Mary Papenfuss reported a small plane carrying American tourists to a golf outing crashed in a ball of flames into an Australian shopping mall just seconds after takeoff from Essendon Airport in suburban Melbourne. All five on board were killed. The mall, next to a freeway, was closed when the plane went down about […]
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telegraph.co.uk reported a 30-year-old British backpacker in Australia who was hailed as a hero after he tried to defend fellow Briton during a knife attack at a hostel has died of stab wounds in hospital. Tom Jackson, from Congleton in Cheshire, was repeatedly stabbed in the head, face and body last Tuesday night by French […]
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telegraph.co.uk/AP reported, Twelve people including two children died and 30 were injured when their bus turned over Monday near the Mexican tourist resort of Cancun, emergency services said. The bus crashed in the early hours in a wooded area of the Carrillo Puerto municipality, said Reyes Silvestre, head of the local civil protection rescue team. […]
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ecuadorinmediato.com The two young women from Argentina who were vacationing in Ecuador in Montanita have been found dead. Interior Minister reported both young women were found with trauma injuries to the head. The victims are Marina Menegazzo age 21 and Maria Jose Coni age 22. The parents have been notified of the tragic news. Authorities […]
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A suspected member of the Islamic State (IS) group has killed 10 people, at least eight of them German tourists, in a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish city of Istanbul, officials say. Istanbul Sultanahmet district…8 of the dead were German tourists. Germany issues alert warning for Turkey. Read Article
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bbc.com reported two French schoolchildren and a Ukrainian tourist have been killed in an avalanche at a ski resort in the French Alps, officials say. Three others – two pupils and a teacher – were seriously injured. The two pupils were found in state of cardiac arrest and the teacher was unconscious. All members of […]
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BBC.COM reported…One of the two British tourists killed after a train derailed in northern India has been named as Joan Nichols.A family member told the BBC the 71-year-old from South Shields was on a “once in a life time holiday”. Her husband John, 72, has been released from hospital. Their two daughters and son are […]
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theguardian.com reported…Visitors were said to have been travelling in convoy in an area of desert when they were attacked At least a dozen tourists and their guides have been killed in what is reported to be an accidental attack on their convoy by Egyptian security forces. Some of the tourists are reported to be Mexican […]
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