(F. Schneider/Picture-Alliance/DPA/AP Images)Another American tourist recently died in the Dominican Republic, a State Department official confirmed Sunday. An obituary for the 67-year-old said he “passed unexpectedly while vacationing in the Dominican Republic” on April 14. On Sunday night, Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz was shot inside a restaurant and bar in the Dominican Republic. [Dominican Republic deaths: Autopsies show similarities for three U.S. victims]Francisco Javier Garcia, the country’s minister of tourism, suggested that the deaths may simply be a coincidence. “This is something that … has never happened before in our country,” Paola Rainieri, president of Asonahores, the Dominican Republic Hotel and Tourism Association, said at the news conference.

Source: Washington Post June 10, 2019 11:27 UTC