Pictured: grandmother who was killed when banana boat flipped over.

Pictured: British grandmother, 58, who was killed when banana boat flipped over on Thomas Cook holiday to troubled Egyptian resort

  • British grandmother, aged 58, was reportedly trapped underneath the inflatable
  • Pictures show Janice Bowles, of Bristol, taken before her holiday to the resort
  • Thomas Cook have now suspended all affiliated boat tours in Hurghada, Egypt 

The first pictures have emerged of a British grandmother who died after a banana boat flipped over while she was on a Thomas Cook holiday in Egypt where a couple also recently died.

Janice Bowles, 58, from Bristol was reportedly trapped underneath the inflatable after it flipped and threw all riders into the sea in Hurghada on August 28.

The pictures of Mrs Bowles, who died in front of her daughter, show her before her doomed holiday.

Pictures have emerged that show Janice Bowles before her doomed holiday

She died just a week after two fellow British tourists died suddenly at the five-star Steigenberger Aqua Magic hotel

Mrs Bowles was reportedly trapped after the boat it flipped and threw all riders into the sea. Stock picture


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Janice Bowles, 58, died after becoming trapped under a banana boat in Hurghada on August 28

One British holidaymaker, an ex-army veteran, who was on board at the time said the boat flipped after the speedboat pulling it along ‘bombed out’ on the water, the Sun  reported.  

The incident took place a week after fellow British tourists John and Susan Cooper died suddenly at the five-star Steigenberger Aqua Magic hotel. 

 The group had been on a dolphin-watching tour just before the tragic accident.

The man told the Sun: ‘I could hear the woman’s daughter wailing, as she knew that there was something seriously wrong with her mum.

‘They got the lady back on an they were doing chest compressions, but at no point were there any breaths given.

‘I’m screaming at them “open her airways” but they pushed me back.’


  • Filthy sun-loungers, hazardous umbrellas and a swimming pool…


    Were British couple who died suddenly at Egypt hotel…


  • British mother dies in front of daughter as banana boat…

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Thomas Cook have suspended the dolphin-watching tour the group were on while they investigate.

A Thomas Cook spokesman told the Sun: ‘We can confirm that one of our customers sadly died last week while on an excursion in Egypt.

Mrs Bowles died off the coast of Hurghada (pictured) after becoming trapped under the inflatable when it flipped over on August 28

Mrs Bowles died a week after fellow British tourists John and Susan Cooper died at the resort

‘We would like to offer our sincere condolences to the family, and our welfare team continue to do all they can to support them at this time.

‘We are urgently investigating what happened.’

A Foreign Office spokesman said: ‘Our staff are assisting the family of a British woman who has died in Hurghada.’  

Mr and Mrs Cooper stayed next to a room that had been fumigated just hours before, raising fears they may have been poisoned by toxic gases.

Pest controllers sprayed chemicals into the room on August 20, the day before Susan and John Cooper died.

The couple’s daughter Kelly Ormerod reported a strange smell in her parents’ room at the five-star hotel at the Red Sea resort of Hurghada in the hours before they died. Kelly’s daughter had intended to stay the night with her grandparents but returned to her mother’s room due to the odour.

 

   

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