Red Sea governor Ahmed Abdallah said on Sunday that Thomas Cook overreacted in evacuating the Hurghada hotel where British couple John, 69, and Susan Cooper, 63 passed away. The couple was found dead on Tuesday in their hotel room, spurring fears they had either suffered carbon monoxide poisoning from the room’s faulty air-conditioning unit, or food poisoning. British tourism company Thomas Cook, which organized the couple’s trip, then announced a plan to evacuate 300 tourists from the hotel. Reports came in that large numbers of the hotel guests felt fatigue coinciding with the death of John and Susan Cooper. Kelly Ormerod, daughter of the British couple told BBC on Sunday that something in that room killed them.

Source: Egypt Independent August 27, 2018 14:26 UTC