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Bus crash kills 17 in Thailand
19 Jan 2007 09:13:34 GMT
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BANGKOK, Jan 19 (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed in northern Thailand on Friday when a coach taking teachers on a trip plunged off a mountain road down an embankment into a river, police said.

About 25 people were injured in the accident on the main road between the northern cities of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, Police Colonel Chartchai Neovakul said.

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A two-year-old piglet rests on its adoptive mother Sai Mai, a six-year-old tiger, at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand's Chonburi Province, nearly 100 km (62 miles) east of Bangkok, February 16, 2007. Zoo staff outfitted the piglet in traditional Chinese wear, ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year of the "Year of the Pig", which starts on February 18.


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