{"id":13735,"date":"2018-09-03T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13735"},"modified":"2018-09-03T15:28:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:28:15","slug":"third-tourist-dies-at-egyptian-red-sea-resort-in-banana-boat-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13735","title":{"rendered":"Third tourist dies at Egyptian Red Sea resort in banana boat incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1366141\/middle-east\" readability=\"68\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: A British tourist has died when the banana boat she was riding flipped over at the Red Sea resort, Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel, the same venue where a couple died last month, London daily Evening Standard reported.<\/p>\n<p>\nAn unnamed witness, who was on the same boat, said people were thrown off the inflatable when it flipped over, leaving one woman trapped underneath the report added.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI could hear the woman\u2019s daughter wailing as she knew there was something seriously wrong with her mom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe victim, said to be in her 50s, was pulled out from the water and attempts were made to revive her.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe woman\u2019s death comes just days after British couple, John and Susan Cooper died of \u201cunknown causes\u201d at the same hotel, after which Thomas Cook relocated 300 guests.<\/p>\n<p>\nA Thomas Cook spokesman confirmed the latest fatality.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;We would like to offer our sincere condolences to the family and our welfare team to continue to do all they can to support them at this time,\u201d the spokesman added.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe spokesman said the incidents were under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added: \u201cThe safety of our customers is our priority. We\u2019d never send customers to a hotel we don\u2019t believe to be safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: A British tourist has died when the banana boat she was riding flipped over at the Red Sea resort, Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel, the same venue where a couple died last month, London daily Evening Standard reported. An unnamed witness, who was on the same boat, said people were thrown off the inflatable when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}