Holiday illness victims win £2.5m compensation

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Around 500 British tourists win compensation after food poisoning incident in the Bahia Principe San Juan resort in the Dominican Republic

More than 500 British tourists have won compensation exceeding £2.5m in total after their holidays were ruined by illness at a hotel resort in the Dominican Republic.

Their lawyers claimed the settlement with two UK tour companies was among the largest recorded for a holiday case, and warned that other operators should learn from the 2007 outbreak which struck down more than 1,000 holidaymakers and led to dozens being taken to hospital.

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