7 h. ago At least 14 tourists dead in hotel fire as people leap out windows in great escape

At least 14 tourists have been killed and dozens injured after a fire ripped through a hotel – images of tourists leaping out of windows to flee has flooded social media

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8 h. ago Hotel fire horror kills at least 15 tourists including two children, as witnesses say inferno turned building into a 'gas chamber' with people seen jumping out of windows

Several people were rescued from rooms and roof of the budget hotel, Kolkata police chief Manoj Verma said, after the fire broke out on Tuesday evening.

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10 h. ago Hotel fire kills at least 14 tourists in India as tragedy 'anguishes' nation

Desperate tourists tried to escape through the windows and narrow ledges of the building as the fire took hold of the building.

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10 h. ago Two children among 15 dead as guests jump from windows to escape fire at six

Police say most victims died of suffocation, while at least one man died trying to jump from the Rituraj Hotel in Kolkata

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11 h. ago India hotel fire kills at least 14 tourists as tragedy 'anguishes' nation

The fire broke out at the Rituraj Hotel in central Kolkata, India, on Tuesday evening and desperate tourists tried to escape through the windows and narrow ledges of the building

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51 h. ago American tourist who trespassed on killer uncontacted tribe's island freed on bail... but there's a big catch

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, is facing five years in prison after being arrested for landing on Sentinel Island last month and leaving a can of coke for an uncontacted tribe.

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52 h. ago Chinese tourist confesses to killing transgender woman and removing her heart

Suspect says victim refused to have sex with him

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57 h. ago Shooting in Myrtle Beach as one killed and 11 injured amid tourist season chaos

A man has been killed and at least eleven people have been injured in a shooting that took place at a popular tourist destination in South Carolina, with police opening fire during the incident

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2 d. ago Mass shooting in Myrtle Beach tourist hotspot leaves 11 injured, suspect killed by police

At least 11 people have been injured and one suspect has been killed in an officer-involved shooting in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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4 d. ago India and Pakistan trade gunfire across Kashmir border after deadly attack

Tensions between the nuclear-armed countries have escalated after attack killed 26 people in disputed territory Indian and Pakistani troops have exchanged gunfire across the volatile frontier in Kashmir for a second day, amid spiralling tensions after a brazen attack that killed 26 people at a popular tourist resort.The massacre has sent relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours into a dangerous downward spin. India and Pakistan have fought three wars, two over Muslim-majority Kashmir, which is divided between them but claimed fully by both. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ‘Steer clear, drink beer’: Teach teens the dangers of methanol poisoning says best friend of killed Laos tourist

Following the death of her friend, Bethany Clarke says the dangers of methanol poisoning should be on the school curriculum

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5 d. ago Everything we know about attackers who killed 26 tourists in Kashmir

India puts out bounty on three suspected Kashmiri and Pakistani gunmen

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5 d. ago Pakistan threatens to freeze crucial peace treaty with India amid Kashmir tourist massacre fallout

Pakistan's warning to India comes after New Delhi blamed Islamabad for a deadly attack that killed 26 people, mostly tourists, in disputed Kashmir

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5 d. ago Kashmir attack: Indian army chief to visit Srinagar as UN urges ‘maximum restraint’

UN calls for tensions between India and Pakistan to be resolved peacefully as relations plunge to lowest level in years following deadly shootingIndia’s army chief was set to lead a high-level security review in Srinagar on Friday, days after militants opened fire on tourists in Indian-held Kashmir, killing 26 civilians in one of the worst such attacks in years.The brazen assault, carried out in a mountain meadow near Pahalgam, has derailed prime minister Narendra Modi’s claims of restored calm in the restive Himalayan territory and sent tensions soaring between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago India orders ALL Pakistani nationals to leave the country and slams borders shut amid growing fears nuke

India has ordered all Pakistani nationals to leave the country within 72 hours after a militant attack in Kashmir killed 26 tourists.

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6 d. ago Brit tourist, 22, is killed in paragliding horror crash along with his pilot after wing broke and they plunged onto rocks during tandem flight in Turkey

The Briton, 22, and his pilot, 29, leaped from the runway at the Babadag paragliding spot in Fethiye in a tandem jump at around 11.45am on Wednesday.

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6 d. ago Modi vows to pursue terrorists to ‘ends of the Earth’ after Kashmir attack

Indian PM makes first speech amid increasing tensions with Pakistan after 26 men killed in contested Himalayan region India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has vowed to punish all those responsible for Tuesday’s attack in Kashmir, pursuing them “to the ends of the Earth”.Twenty-six men were killed in the tourist hotspot of Pahalgam, in the deadliest attack on civilians in the contested Muslim-majority territory since 2000. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago India closes main border with Pakistan after deadly Kashmir attack

Suspected militants killed 26 men at a tourist destination

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6 d. ago Tensions escalate between India and Pakistan following deadly attack in disputed Kashmir

Tensions between arch rivals India and Pakistan were high on Thursday as New Delhi mounted a diplomatic offensive against Islamabad, blaming it for a deadly attack that killed 26 people, mostly tourists, in disputed Kashmir

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6 d. ago India summons top Pakistani diplomat after Kashmir attack kills 26 – reports

India has reportedly summoned the top diplomat from Pakistan’s embassy to give notice that all defence advisers in its mission are persona non grataIndia has summoned Pakistan’s top diplomat in New Delhi, local media reported on Thursday, a day after it announced measures to downgrade ties with Islamabad over a deadly militant attack in Kashmir.A day after suspected militants killed 26 men at a tourist destination in Kashmir – in the worst attack on civilians in the country in nearly two decades – Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri said there was cross-border involvement in the attack and that New Delhi would suspend a six-decade old river-sharing treaty, as well as close the only land crossing between the neighbours. Continue reading...

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