CANADIAN COUPLE DIE AT RESORT

Posted on 11/12/2015 | About Playa del Carmen, Mexico

A Canadian couple has been found dead in their hotel room at a resort in Playa del Carmen.  According to local media reports, the man and the woman were in Mexico to attend their daughter’s wedding.

The prosecutor’s office in the state of Quintana Roo said the bodies of a man and woman were found in a whirlpool tub in their room on Monday. An official said the bodies showed no signs of violence and autopsies suggested that the man died of a heart attack, while the woman died of asphyxia by submersion.

She said the deaths appeared to be accidental and linked, suggesting the man's heart attack may have somehow caused the woman to drown.

The couple, who have been identified as Charles Mackenzie, 67, and Dorothy Mackenzie, 63, are from Baddeck, N.S.

A spokesperson for the Playacar Palace hotel, where the couple was staying, dismissed reports that the Canadians had somehow been electrocuted in the tub.

"The room was perfectly fine. All the equipment was working perfectly," David Rubeo told The Canadian Press. "What the family mentioned was a heart attack."

Rubeo said the couple's family was still staying at the hotel and was being assisted by hotel staff.

"We are treating them as our own family," he said, noting that staff  were helping the Canadians deal with local authorities.

"All the group is very calm, in the best way they can be."

The Department of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa confirmed that two Canadians have died in Mexico and a spokesperson said, “Canadian consular officials in Playa del Carmen, Mexico are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information.”