Two American tourists have been found dead in their luxury hotel room in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Police and paramedics arrived at the Hotel Rancho Pescadero, where rooms cost up to $760 a night, at around 9pm on Tuesday after receiving reports that a man and women were unconscious.
Their cause of death was ‘intoxication by substance to be determined’, the Attorney General’s office said in a statement to ABC on Wednesday.
The man and woman had been dead for about 10 or 11 hours when they were found at the luxury hotel in the seaside community of El Pescadero, according to the AG’s office.
The office said there were no signs of violence on their bodies, and added the local attorney general is currently overseeing the investigation.
The Hotel Rancho Pescadero, a luxury Hyatt hotel, is in the seaside community of El Pescadero, which is located between Todos Santos and the resort of Los Cabos.
Hyatt has been approached for comment. The tragedy comes after several cases of such deaths in Mexico due to poisoning by carbon monoxide or other gases.
Such gases are often produced by improperly vented or leaky water heaters and stoves.In October, three US citizens were found dead at a rented apartment in Mexico, apparently victims of gas inhalation.
The Mexico City police department said the three were found unresponsive on October 30 in an upscale neighborhood.
They had apparently rented the dwelling for a short visit.
Post-mortem examinations suggested the two men and one woman died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
In Mexico, proper gas line installations, vents and monitoring devices are often lacking.
In 2018, a gas leak in a water heater caused the deaths of an American couple and their two children in the resort town of Tulum, south of Playa del Carmen.
An inspection revealed that the water heater at the rented condominium was leaking gas. Prosecutors said the gas leak was perhaps caused by a lack of maintenance or the age of the equipment.
