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Australian tourist killed in Goa, India
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by Sanjay Jha | October 9, 2008 at 01:37 am
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With sand, Beach and Sun, Goa is one of the most sought after tourist destination in the world. As Goa was preparing to host over half a million tourist this season this unforutnate incident will scare off lot of tourist. An Australian national suffered internal injuries after he had an argument with the waiter over the way of serving beer. The arguments took ugly turn when two waiters along with a security guard, allegedly hit the guest. Goa police have rounded three people including a security guard for brutally assaulting an aged Australian national after a pub brawl in the coastal area of Calangute here. John Kallie, 65 year-old Scotish residing in Australia died in the state managed Goa medical college and hospital near here on Wednesday.
The incident occurred few minutes before the coastal resort state offered red carpet welcome to the first batch of German and Russian tourists who landed here heralding the formal international tourist season in the state.
Goa has almost 42 per cent of its foreign arrivals from UK followed by the Russians.An Australian tourist has died in hospital in Goa, India, after he was assaulted at a beach bar, police say.John Kallie died 10 hours after being attacked while drinking beer in the bar at Calangute beach.
Three people, including two waiters and a security guard at the bar, have been detained in connection with the death.
A British teenager was raped and killed while holidaying in Goa in February. The case is still being investigated by India's federal police, CBI.
According to reports, Mr Kallie was assaulted after getting into an argument with a waiter over how beer should be served.
"Reports of post-mortem are awaited. But it is suspected that he (Mr Kallie) had a fight with the hotel staff and they came to blows," senior police officer Gundu Naik told the BBC.
"He was pushed down and assaulted. Since he was quite old, he suffered from internal bleeding. We will have a clearer picture by the evening," he said.
Goa is India's best known tourist destination and receives hundreds of thousands of visitors from India and abroad every year.
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at 04:22 on October 9th, 2008
Goa is now becoming a rouge destination.There is no doubt about that.Goa image is all about lowlife gangs, drug, booze and mafia and ofcourse those rude waiters/restaurent bar owners.And then comes the cool beaches. It's upto the local citizens to decide if they have to safegaurd the image of Goa.
at 07:40 on October 9th, 2008
Waiters kill Australian at Calangute
Tourist Picked Up Fight Over Serving Beer
Preetu Nair | TNN
Panaji: An Australian tourist had to pay with his life in Goa on Wednesday after he picked up an argument with a restaurant waiter over how a beer should be served. John Kelly, 65, had gone to Calangute’s Club City Restaurant around 8 am and ordered a beer. However, he was not happy with the waiter’s service and scolded him.
“This resulted in an argument between the two. A group of waiters then beat up the Australian and tore up his clothes,” said a police official. Pushed around, the tourist fell to the floor, he said. Kelly was immediately rushed to Goa Medical College and Hospital, where he breathed his last at 5 pm. He had arrived in Goa on September 29.
“From what we have gathered, the foreigner suffered internal injuries to which he succumbed. We have detained two persons—a waiter and a security guard of the restaurant,” said superintendent of police (North) Bosco George.
Calangute police inspector Tushar Vernekar said, “We have registered a case of murder and are investigating the matter.”
Police said Kelly was rushed to hospital in a critical condition and passed away before they could register his statement. Based on information provided by a friend who was with Kelly in hospital, the police rounded up few of the waiters for interrogation and came to know what had happened.
The post-mortem will be conducted on Thursday.
This is not the first time that a foreign tourist to the state has been attacked. Early this year, British teenager Scarlett Keeling was allegedly raped and murdered by two locals. In another incident recently, a Russian woman was beaten up by locals, forcing the Russian consulate to write to the state chief minister alleging “national or racial intolerance”.
A couple of years back, another tourist to Goa from the UK, Stephen Bennett, was found murdered.
October 09,2008, The Times of India, Goa edition
at 00:40 on October 21st, 2008
I was honeymooning in Goa a few years ago and also noticed the arrogance of Goan waiters, hoteliers/resort owners, etc. particularly in North Goa. I was almost assaulted by the waiter at a Candolim restaurant (I cannot remember the name of the restaurant, but it was on the right side while walking to the beach). The previous night I had eaten there and the waiter did not have change, so I said I would pick it up the next day. I ate there the following evening, settled my bill and then approached the waiter who was now avoiding me and asked for my money back and he got violent. To avoid confrontation, and wisely so, I left the place and never ate there again.
I have heard of many other similar incidents around the beach areas. Decent tourists please stay away from Candolim, Calangute and other North Goa beaches.