Two tourists have died from suspected pesticide poisoning after their hostel in Sri Lanka was fumigated for bedbugs, Britain’s PA Media news agency has reported.

Two young foreign women died after feeling sick in their hostel in Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital. There is suspicion that their deaths may be linked to their rooms being sprayed down for insects.

The British woman's family said she died within a few hours of being rushed to hospital as Sri Lanka police investigate the possibility of poisoning.

The sudden death of a 24-year-old British woman staying in a hostel in Sri Lanka is being investigated by police. Ebony McIntosh, a digital marketing and social media manager from Derby, was taken to hospital in the capital Colombo on Saturday after reportedly suffering from vomiting,

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police said Saturday they were investigating the death of two foreign tourists, suspected to have succumbed to poisoning after the fumigation against insects in their hostel rooms.