Mystery on a Caribbean island: Six American tourists went on vacation and died suddenly

As if it 's been a horror movie, the number of US tourists who mysteriously they are dead during your holidays in the Dominican Republic, it continues to increase: there are now six. The US authorities are trying to decipher what is behind all this.

The last three victims They had arrived May 25 in San Pedro de Macoris, a tourist resort located in the south of the Caribbean island.

Miranda Schaup-Werner, 41, has booked a room with her husband at the Bahia Principe Bouganville Luxury Hotel. She he lost consciousness the same day he arrived after leaving the balcony. Neither her husband nor the hotel's medical team could revive her.

Cynthia Day, 49, and Edward Holmes, 63, were staying at a nearby hotel, Grand Bahia Principe La Romana. The staff found the Maryland couple dead in their room on May 30th.

The three victims died from respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, according to the local prosecutor's office. Schaup-Werner also suffered a cardiac arrest.

Three more deaths

These deaths sparked interest for other American deaths already occurring in island resorts that went unnoticed.

Yvette Monique Short told a Philadelphia television channel that her 51-year-old sister he died in June of last year in a hotel in Bahia Principe after having a drink from the minibar of the room.

Two other deaths last year became more relevant, even though they were at the Punta Cana resort at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.

Robert Wallace, a 67-year-old Californian, died on April 14, 2018 after drinking a whiskey from the minibar, said his niece. Fox News. "He started to feel very sick, I had blood in my urine and in feces, "he explained.

Three months later, 45-year-old David Harrison died in the same compound in July 2018. In the beginning, his widow, Dawn McCoy, admitted that he had died for a heart attack but now questions arise.

"When the cases of these people started to pbad, I stopped and thought," How can they have the same cause of death as David? "Said McCoy. The Washington Post.

Steven Bullock, a lawyer for the Day family, said the autopsies of Cynthia Day and Edward Holmessus would be performed in the United States.

Asked about his contacts with the police and the Dominican authorities, Bullock said that "they were very, very difficult, we did not listen enough and that is part of the problem".

"It seems that we are getting nothing (from the police), we have journalists in the field who help us collect information," he told reporters. AFP.

Kaylynn Knull and Tom Schwander, a couple from Colorado, said CNN What they suffered headaches, abdominal cramps and diarrhea after feeling a strong smell of chemicals at the hotel La Romana in June 2018.

According to the tests that were done when they returned home, they could have been exposed to pesticides used against ants and badroaches.

The couple, who has complained in this regard, believes that the product has been disseminated by the air conditioning system.