According to canada.com, officials say three Romanian citizens have died in a highway accident in Hungary involving several vehicles, including a truck, three small buses and five cars. Hungarian police said the accident took place Friday on the M5 highway, 25 kilometres (15 miles) south of Budapest, also injuring 30 people. Read article
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Channel News Asia reports that two Chinese men died and three other tourists were injured on Wednesday when their speedboat struck an anchored vessel near the central Thai resort of Pattaya, police said. The engine of the speedboat carrying ten Chinese tourists hit the anchor rope of the other vessel, killing the two men at […]
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According to thehindu.com, three persons, including a 60-year-old woman, were killed on the spot and 23 injured when a tourist bus rammed into a stationary truck near Karnataka State Sales Tax checkpost on Pune-Bangalore NH4 near Nipani town of Chikkodi taluk in Belgaum district in the early hour of Monday. All the victims were from […]
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Thestandard.com.hk reports that thirty-three passengers were killed in Malaysia today when a bus carrying 49 people plunged 30 meters into a ravine near a mountaintop tourist resort popular with Chinese and Singaporean visitors. Local media reports said 16 have suffered injuries. Police said the vehicle had tumbled off a steep road near the Genting Highlands, […]
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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 […]
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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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According to stuff.co.nz, a family reunion in Samoa turned to tragedy when a New Zealand woman and three of her brothers were killed in a head-on crash. The crash, just before 5pm on Tuesday near the eastern beach of Lalomanu, claimed the lives of Valelia Faofua, 64, and three of her brothers: Manuele Alefosio and […]
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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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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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