Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., says the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) should assist the FBI and local authorities to determine what caused the deaths of at least 10 Americans who vacationed to the Dominican Republic since June 2018. COLORADO MAN VISITING DOMINICAN REPUBLIC DIES, RELATIVES SAY THEIR QUESTIONS TO AUTHORITIES GOING UNANSWEREDFrancisco Javier Garcia, the tourism minister in the Dominican Republic, has said the deaths were a normal phenomenon and not mysterious. Science also exists here in the Dominican Republic,” García told AP. There are no mysterious deaths here in the Dominican Republic.”The U.S. State Department says over 2.7 million people visit the Dominican Republic every year and they feel there is no reason to be concerned. "We have not seen an uptick in the number of U.S. citizen deaths reported to the department," an official at the State Department told NPR.

Source: Fox News June 30, 2019 15:00 UTC