By Caribbean News Now contributor
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic – The latest in a series of startling similar fatalities in the Dominican Republic, a sixth American tourist was reported Monday to have died from a strange illness at a resort in the island that shares a border with Haiti.
Most of the deaths, and several other serious illnesses, include healthy, middle-aged adults who consumed a drink from their hotel room minibar before abruptly becoming severely ill.
That link appears like more than a fluke to the victims’ loved ones and has led to increased calls for action and even for the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to initiate an investigation.
The most recent death to be reported was that of Robert Bell Wallace, 67, of California, who police stated died on April 14 while in the Dominican resort town of Punta Cana at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. The coroner has yet to ascertain Wallace’s cause of death. However, his niece told reporters that her uncle became ill quickly after drinking a glass of scotch from the minibar in his room – three days later, he died in a hospital.
“We have so many questions,” niece Chloe Arnold lamented to reporters. “We don’t want this to happen to anyone else.”
The revelation that another American tourist, David Harrison, 45, of Maryland, had died at the same Hard Rock in July 2018 under likewise mysterious circumstances further complicates this mystery.
Furthermore, just one month after Wallace died, three others mysteriously died in their rooms at another Dominican resort within…
