Hotel deaths: Egypt says no faults in UK couple’s room

Engineers have found no fault in the air conditioning unit or any other equipment in the Egyptian hotel room of a British couple on holiday who died within hours of each other, the public prosecutor said yesterday.

Tour operator Thomas Cook has moved all its customers from the hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada after the couple died in what their daughter on Friday called “suspicious” circumstances.

The company said it was unclear what had caused the deaths on Tuesday of the Britons, identified as 69-year-old John and Susan Cooper, 63, from Burnley in northern England.

Experts from the engineering faculty of Ganoub el-Wadi University were called in to inspect the room at the plush Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel, Egypt’s public prosecutor said in a statement.