Families of 3 Massachusetts women who died at Belize resort file $100m lawsuit against hotel, Expedia: report

The families of 3 Massachusetts women who died of c monoxide poisoning past twelvemonth portion staying astatine a edifice successful Belize person filed a wrongful decease lawsuit, naming the edifice and Expedia, the question site, arsenic defendants.

Wafae El-Arar, 26, Kaoutar Naqqad, 23, and Imane Mallah, 24, were each recovered dormant connected Feb. 22, 2025 astatine the Royal Kahal Beach Resort successful San Pedro.

All 3 women had each had fatal vulnerability to c monoxide," authorities said astatine the time. 

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Authorities antecedently identified the women arsenic Kaoutar Naqqad, 23, Imane Mallah, 24, and Wafae El-Arar, 26, aft they were recovered dormant connected Feb. 22 astatine the Royal Kahal Beach Resort successful San Pedro. The families of the women are suing the edifice and Expedia, the question website utilized to publication their vacation. 

Belize Police Commissioner Chester Williams suggested that a malfunctioning gas-powered h2o heater could person been responsible. Boston.com reported.

"We are inactive trying to process the unimaginable," the families said successful a statement. "Our daughters and sisters near for abrogation and ne'er came home. The disbelief has not faded, and neither has the pain."

In a national suit filed Tuesday successful Boston, the families allege that Royal Kahal failed to analyse warnings from erstwhile edifice guests who reported c monoxide exposure, and that the suite wherever the women stayed lacked a functional c monoxide detector, according to the quality outlet. 

"This was not an unavoidable accident," said Thomas Scolaro, an lawyer for the women’s families. "It was the foreseeable effect of decisions that enactment information past and a bottommost enactment first, and our ineligible strategy exists to clasp those liable to account."

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Aerial photograph of San Pedro, Belize, which borders the Caribbean Sea. (Getty Images / iStock)

The women utilized Expedia to program their abrogation to Belize successful aboriginal 2025. After viewing an Expedia leafage for Royal Kahal, the question website sent them "retargeting ads and solicitations" encouraging them to publication their trip, the suit states. 

Meanwhile, different guests had reported precocious c monoxide levels and symptoms accordant with exposure, the quality outlet reported. Some went truthful acold arsenic to item their experiences done Expedia reviews, the suit states. 

The ailment further alleges that the Navien h2o heaters were not lone defectively designed but improperly installed arsenic edifice operation was "completed connected a shoe-string fund by unqualified handymen." 

"We trusted that the places and companies inviting families to enactment with them cared astir information arsenic overmuch arsenic they cared astir profit," they said. "We present cognize that spot was misplaced. We are present due to the fact that accountability matters, due to the fact that it tin forestall aboriginal tragedies, and due to the fact that our daughters’ lives mattered."

Belize is located successful Central America (Google Maps)

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The families are seeking $100 cardinal successful damages. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the edifice and Expedia, arsenic good arsenic Scolaro.