Emerson Phillips
The death of three Americans Friday at the Sandals Emerald Bay resort on Great Exuma in the Bahamas remains a mystery. And now an American woman at the same resort has been hospitalized and is in serious condition.
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The identity of the woman who’s been hospitalized has not been released. She was initially airlifted to a hospital in Nassau and is being now treated at a hospital in Miami, Royal Bahamas Police Force commissioner Paul Rolle said Sunday.
Foul play is not suspected in the three deaths Friday, Bahamian Acting Prime Minister Chester Cooper said, as authorities continue to try to figure out why they died. The identities of the Americans who died will be released Monday after “official identification” is complete, Rolle told CNN.
“We can confirm the death of three US citizens in the Bahamas,” a US State Department spokesperson said in a statement. “We are closely monitoring local authorities’ investigation into the cause of death. We stand ready to provide all appropriate consular assistant.”
Shortly after 9am Friday, Resort staff alerted police that an unresponsive man had been found in a villa, police said Saturday in a statement. While headed to the scene, police were told another man and woman were found unresponsive in another villa, the release said. The police were then directed to the second villa, where they found the second man “slumped against a wall in a bathroom unresponsive.” The woman was “found in a bedroom on a bed,” according to the statement.
Neither showed signs of trauma, but “both showed signs of convulsion,” the release states, and they were also pronounced dead by a doctor. The man and woman at the second villa had “complained of illness the previous evening” and gotten treatment at a local medical facility before returning to their accommodation.
The woman who was hospitalized had been found in the first villa with the man who died, Rolle told CNN on Saturday.
“Nothing is more important to Sandals Resorts than the safety of our guests,” the resort said Saturday in a statement. The resort also said it continues to “support both the investigation as well as the guests’ families in every way possible.”
It closed by saying that it could not provide additional details “out of respect for the privacy of our guests.”
