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The murder of Nicole Sauvain-Weisskopf, a woman of Swiss nationality on holiday in Phuket, Thailand, occurred in August 2021. [1] She was found dead at Ao Yon waterfall, a popular tourist destination, and thought to have been dead 3 days prior to discovery of the corpse. She was found wearing only a t-shirt and jacket and covered by a black tarp.
John Martin Scripps (9 December 1959 – 19 April 1996), also known as the Garden City Butcher, and "The Tourist From Hell"[1] was an English serial killer who murdered three tourists—Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand —with another three unconfirmed victims. He posed as a tourist himself when committing the ...
Shooting incident at Phuket Farmer's Market Shooting 7 January 2022: Phuket Farmer's Market, Mueang Phuket district: Phuket: 2 3 5 [72] 2022 Mae Fa Luang Shooting Extrajudicial killing: 28 May 2022: Mae Fa Luang subdistrict Mae Fa Luang district: Chiang Rai Province: 9 9 [73] Todeng shootings Shooting 3 August 2022: Su-ngai Padi district ...
August 25, 2024 at 8:47 AM. BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thirteen people including a Russian couple died in a mudslide on the Thai resort island of Phuket, the authorities said Sunday, after calling off a ...
This is a list of mass or spree killers in Africa. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves. [1] [2] A mass murder typically occurs in a single location where one or more persons kill several others. [3] [4] [5]
Wisut Tangwittayaporn, also known as Ae Inside, ( c. 1968 – 12 January 2012) was a journalist, editor for Phuket E-News and publisher of Inside Phuket in Phuket, Thailand. He was most notable for being a journalist who reported on controversial land claims, as well as being a political activist. He was assassinated by professional gunmen in ...
Oscar Pistorius. Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (/ pɪˈstɔːriəs / pist-OR-ee-əs, Afrikaans: [pəˈstuəriœs]; born 22 November 1986) is a South African former professional sprinter and convicted murderer. [9] He was first convicted of culpable homicide of his then-girlfriend, which was subsequently upgraded to murder upon appeal.
The tsunami was noticed as far as Struisbaai in South Africa, about 8,500 km (5,300 mi) away, where a 1.5-metre-high (5 ft) tide surged on shore about 16 hours after the earthquake. It took a relatively long time to reach Struisbaai at the southernmost point of Africa, probably because of the broad continental shelf off South Africa and because ...