According to thelocal.fr, despite pleas by road authorities and government ministers for drivers to take extra caution, the first weekend of the French summer holidays was marred by several fatalities on the country’s roads. Dozens were also left injured. The first weekend of the summer holidays was hit by tragedy when several people were left dead and numerous others injured in road accidents across the country. On Friday, Interior Minister Manual Valls announced that 13,000 traffic police would be on duty over Saturday and Sunday and he asked drivers to show “prudence” on the roads, which were expected to be chock-a-block as holidaymakers headed out of the big cities in search of the sun. Read article
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According to hurriyetdailynews.com, a bus carrying Scandinavian tourists crashed in the southern Turkish resort city of Alanya, killing two tourists from Sweden and Denmark. Media reports are stating that the deceased Swede, identified as Oliver Andre Karlsson, was 15-years-old and was traveling with his relatives. He was immediately taken to hospital after sustaining a serious […]
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Xinhua News reports that four Chinese were stabbed to death in a bakery on Monday in Papua New Guinea’s capital of Port Moresby, confirmed by the Chinese Embassy in Papua New Guinea. Cao Junjun, Chinese diplomat in Papua New Guinea, told Xinhua on Wednesday, “the three men and a woman were in a bakery when […]
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Yahoo News reports that unidentified attackers stabbed at least five Syrian passengers on a bus in the Lebanese capital on Monday, security sources said, in what appeared to be another incident of violence linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria. It was unclear who the attackers or the victims were, but Lebanon is becoming […]
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According to Foxcrawl.com, 17 Romanians died and 31 were left injured after their bus fell off a bridge into a ravine in Montenegro on Sunday evening. The bus was carrying 46 tourists and two drivers. Read Article
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BBC News reports that gunmen have killed 11 people, including at least nine foreign tourists, after storming a hotel in northern Pakistan. The nationalities of the victims have not been fully confirmed, although they include a number of Ukrainians and Chinese. One Pakistani also died. The assault happened at the base camp of Nanga Parbat, […]
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Yahoo News New Zealand reports that a coroner has found a German tourist was trying to eat spaghetti while driving before he crashed his car, killing himself and a French tourist who’d hitched a lift. Onur Gulmez had hooked up with Paul Joubert and another German tourist in Wellington, the three agreeing to travel to […]
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Stuff.co.nz reports that a fire swept through a hotel in a Philippine resort city, killing seven people, including three Americans, three Filipinos and a South Korean, authorities said. The three American men and the South Korean man were found dead in separate rooms in the Dryden Hotel, a small two-story tourist hotel in Olongapo city, […]
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According to a transtamils.com report, heavy monsoon rains and strong winds in Sri Lankan tourist towns have killed at least 19 people with dozens more missing, in rough seas, Sri Lankan officials said on Sunday.Capital city and Southern coast ware badly affected and people hundreds are injured by falling trees and wind blown materials. Read […]
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Yahoo News reports that a suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus carrying Iranian Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims in Iraq on Friday, killing at least nine people in an attack likely carried out by Sunni Muslim insurgents trying to ignite sectarian conflict. Police said that in Friday’s attack in Muqdadiya, 80 km northeast of Baghdad, […]
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