London gap year students killed in Thailand coach crash
BBC 30 June 2011
Three gap year students from London have been killed in a coach crash in Thailand.
Conrad Hugo Quashie, Bruno Albert Melling-Firth and Maximilian Hugo Ulrich Boomgaarden-Cook were travelling from the capital city Bangkok to the northern town of Chiang Mai.
Their coach was in a head-on crash with another bus in Khlong Khlung, in the Kamphaeng Phet Province, on Tuesday.
All three were students at Charter School in Dulwich, south London.
The Foreign Office (FCO) has confirmed the incident and said two other Britons were also on board the coach, one of them required hospital treatment.
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Three British teenagers killed in Thai bus crash: officials
AFP 2011-07-01
LONDON (AFP) - Three British teenagers died in a bus crash while travelling through northern Thailand, officials in London said on Thursday.
The three young men, all 19 and from London, were killed when the coach they were travelling in collided with another bus early Tuesday as they headed for the northern city of Chiang Mai.
Bruno Melling-Firth, Conrad Quashie and Max Boomgaarden-Cook were taking time off to travel before going to university when they died in Khlong Khlung, Kamphaeng Phet province, a government source said.
A third Briton was injured in the crash and taken to hospital in Bangkok. British media reported that about 40 other passengers were hurt.
"We can confirm the death of three British nationals," said a Foreign Office statement.
"A further two British nationals were on board the bus. We are in contact with both -- one has some injuries and we have visited him in hospital in Bangkok and are providing assistance."
The teenagers were school friends and been saving for months for the trip, London's Evening Standard newspaper reported. They flew out to Thailand from London Heathrow airport on Thursday last week, it added.
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