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Three U.S. tourists who were found dead in a luxury resort in Belize reportedly died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Miller Gardner, the teenage son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, died of carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities in Costa Rica said Wednesday night.
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Authorities conducted a blood test for carbon monoxide and found a saturation level of 64% in Gardner's body, Costa Rican officials said.
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Three American women who were discovered dead in a Belize resort hotel room last month died from carbon monoxide poisoning, their families said.
Arar, 26 — all from Revere, Mass. — were found dead inside their room at the Royal Kahal Beach Resort in San Pedro on Feb. 22.
Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that takes hundreds of lives each year, and makes even more people sick.
Officials told the families of three Revere women who were found dead in Belize what caused the “acute pulmonary edema” that killed them.
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Miller Gardner, the youngest son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, died March 21 at the age of 14 while on vacation with his family.
The Belize National Forensics Science Service executive director, Gian Cho, said Thursday that carbon monoxide poisoning killed three American women found dead while at a vacation resort there in February.
The cause of the deaths of Kaoutar Naqqad, Imane Mallah and Wafae El-Arar has been determined just over a month after they were found dead in their Belize hotel on Saturday, Feb. 22.
The women’s families issued a statement saying they had been notified by officials in the Central American country Wednesday who told them the women died from “acute” carbon monoxide poisoning, likely from an instant hot water heater.