US visitor dies after swimming in East End hotel pool

(CNS): A 63-year-old woman who was visiting the Cayman Islands from the United States died Monday after getting into difficulties in the swimming pool of a hotel off the Queen’s Highway in East End. Police did not say whether this occurred at the Wyndham or the Morritt’s resorts. At around 2:20pm, police officers responded to a report that the woman had encountered difficulties while swimming in the pool and lost consciousness.

She was assisted out of the water by people nearby who contacted the authorities. EMS and Fire Service staff attended the location, and the woman was taken by ambulance to the Cayman Islands Hospital in George Town, where she was pronounced dead.