Carbon monoxide, often called the “silent killer,” has no taste, odor or color, yet prolonged inhalation of the invisible gas has been linked to the recent deaths of several American tourists traveling abroad.
Arar, 26 — all from Revere, Mass. — were found dead inside their room at the Royal Kahal Beach Resort in San Pedro on Feb. 22.
Officials told the families of three Revere women who were found dead in Belize what caused the “acute pulmonary edema” that killed them.
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.
Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that takes hundreds of lives each year, and makes even more people sick.
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.