Two tourists died in Sri Lanka, poisoned by a bedbug remedy (4 photos)

The hotel was carrying out pest control and apparently did not warn the guests about it.





At the end of January, three tourists staying at the Miracle Colombo City Hostel in Colombo became ill. They felt sick and began vomiting violently. After hospitalization, despite the efforts of doctors, first a 24-year-old tourist from the UK died, and later her neighbor, a 27-year-old German citizen, died. The German woman's husband, who was also taken away by ambulance, is in serious condition and doctors' prognosis for his recovery is very cautious.



Ebony Mackintosh, 24, British tourist





Ebony arrived in Sri Lanka on January 28 to have the best holiday of her life, but died suddenly on February 1

It turned out that the room next door had been sprayed with bedbug repellent. The hostel administration claims that after this the premises remained closed for 72 hours and no one entered them. However, experts suggest that the visitors could have been poisoned by phosphine - this volatile, highly toxic compound could have penetrated into the room next door.

Experts will receive the final results of the cause of death after the autopsy of the deceased tourists, but recently people have been dying from poisoning by toxic gas fumes quite often.



Inessa Papernaya died in a Tashkent hotel

At the end of October last year, journalist Inessa Papernaya died in a Tashkent hotel. Another guest of the hotel, who lived in the next room, also died. The Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan stated that the death was caused by poisoning with a substance of unknown etiology. According to one version, the guests could have inhaled gas vapors that got into the ventilation from the pool - it was being cleaned with special means.

And in September 2024, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 4 children of a large family died from poisoning with a cockroach killer. It should be remembered that such poisons contain highly toxic compounds that can remain on all surfaces for a long time. These products should be used with caution, and then wash dishes and everything on which the volatile poison could remain.