Hotel bedbug spray killed holidaying British couple

Poison tragedy during dream family break on the Red Sea

-  Pat Hurst

A BRITISH couple holidaying in Egypt died of carbon monoxide poisoning after the room next door was sprayed to kill bed bugs, a coroner has ruled.

John Cooper, 69, and his wife Susan, 63, were having a "brilliant" break at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel at Hurghada.

The "fit and healthy" couple from Burnley were with their daughter Kelly Ormerod, three grandchildren and pals at the Red Sea resort.

But around lunchtime on their eighth day the neighbouring room was fumigated with a pesticide called Lambda.

It was diluted with dichloromethane, creating carbon monoxide, the Preston inquest heard.