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Insecticide fear over deaths of Cook holidaymakers in Egypt

Operators
James Chapple
12 September 2018

The British couple who died while holidaying with Thomas Cook in Egypt may have been exposed to a powerful insecticide hours before they fell fatally ill.

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Cook agent Susan Cooper and husband John died within hours of each other while staying at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada last month.


The Egyptian authorities said the couple died of natural causes, while Cook said there was no evidence carbon monoxide poisoning was a factor in their deaths.


The couple’s daughter, Kelly Ormerod, who was staying at the same hotel, has maintained in the weeks following her parents’ deaths there was an unusual smell in their room the morning they were taken seriously ill.