CAIRO — Prompted by the unexplained death of a middle-aged British couple at an Egyptian Red Sea resort this week, their tour company was evacuating 300 foreign guests from their hotel on Friday after it received reports that other guests had also fallen ill. The couple, John and Susan Cooper, of Lancashire, England, died within hours of each other at the resort in Hurghada on Tuesday. Mr. Cooper, 69, was found dead in his hotel room midmorning, the Egyptian authorities said, while Ms. Cooper, 64, who suddenly fell ill, died six hours later after being taken to a hospital. Egyptian officials said that the couple had died of natural causes. But their travel company, Thomas Cook, said on Thursday night that the circumstances of their deaths were still unclear and that it had received reports of a “raised level of illness among guests.”

Source: New York Times August 24, 2018 13:49 UTC