One dead, 30 ill at luxury hotel
Pastor Dale Morgan
One dead, 30 ill at luxury hotel*
* Tom Kington in Rome
* The Guardian,
* Wednesday June 25, 2008
An elderly British tourist has died and 30 others have been taken ill
with suspected food poisoning while they were staying at a four star
hotel on Lake Garda, in Italy.
Geoffrey Appleyard, 71, from Evesham in Hereford and Worcester, died
early on Monday morning while holidaying with his wife, Jean, at the
luxury Grand Hotel Gardone.
Thirty of the 200 other British guests reported symptoms of food
poisoning and 16 were said to be stable in hospital. The Italian news
service Ansa last night reported that the first tests suggested
salmonella. An autopsy on the dead man is due to take place today.
The hotel manager, Franco Mizzarro, said it was too early to connect
Appleyard's death with the food poisoning. "It may have been a heart
attack in his case," he said. But Jean Appleyard said yesterday that her
husband had begun to feel ill soon after eating seafood risotto for
dinner at the hotel on Saturday night.
Italian police visited the hotel on Monday, to take food samples from
the kitchen for analysis."