South Africa

Tourists stabbed, robbed in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG - A Canadian couple hiking in South Africa's Hermanus was stabbed before being robbed, the Western Cape police reported on Wednesday.

The Bahamas

Bahamas increase damage control efforts to save country's image

Ministry of Tourism officials have increased their damage control efforts in order to minimise the fallout to the country's number one industry after the recent robbery of 18 cruise passengers in Nass

Guatemala

German tourist killed in Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY – A 73-year-old German tourist died at a private hospital in this capital after suffering gunshot wounds during an armed robbery, officials said.

Panama

American, Russian tourists wounded in Panama resort town

PANAMA CITY — Panamanian police say they have arrested two teenage boys for allegedly wounding an American and a Russian tourist in a botched robbery attempt.

Kenya

Two arrested over tourist deaths in Kenya

Two people have been arrested in Kenya over the death of a married British couple killed on holiday.

Lessons in Kuala Lumpur

Petty crimes are seriously tackled in Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia’s path to prosperity over the last decade was also accompanied by a rise in street crimes.

Amazon

Armed bandits raid Amazon cruise ship again

Nine armed bandits bound the hands and feet of the 20 holidaymakers, including Britons, Americans, Australians and Spaniards, on a small cruiser heading up the Ucayali River in the Peruvian Amazon to

New Zealand

Irish tourists robbed at gunpoint

Four Irish tourists travelling in New Zealand have been robbed of their van at gunpoint at a campsite in the north island.

Guatemala

US tourist hacked to death in Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY — Robbers armed with machetes hacked a U.S.

Brazil

Group of 31 tourists robbed at gunpoint

Thirty-one Brazilian and foreign tourists visiting a tropical island off Brazil's northeast coast were robbed at gunpoint over the weekend by three men.

The gang sequestered the group for 20 minutes in the restaurant where they were having lunch on the island of Itaparica, off shore from the city of Salvador de Bahia, a spokeswoman for ... read more

Solomon Islands

Masked man holds up tourist bus near airport

A GROUP of visiting tourists were harassed on Sunday.

The tourists were some of the hundreds that arrived in the country onboard a tourist boat Statendam on Sunday.

The group was taken on tour to the historical Bloody Ridge site south of the Henderson airfield but were intercepted on their return.
The group encountered a ... read more

New Zealand

Dutch tourists robbed at gunpoint

Three Dutch tourists were held at gunpoint and robbed by three men as they slept in their campervan near Akaroa, south of Christchurch, at the weekend.

Detective Sergeant Ross Tarawhiti, of Hornby police, said the robbery happened about 2am on Sunday, about 15 minutes out of Akaroa.

The offenders threw a beer bottle through the ... read more

Belfast

Tourists beaten in gang robbery

(eTN) - A Canadian tourist was beaten with a baseball bat and his sister was pushed in a robbery in west Belfast.
The 25-year-old man was hit on the head with the bat and his sister, 27, was pushed against a wall in the attack at Bearnagh Drive early on Sunday.