Boy in Marsa Alam 'died of brain tumour'

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 10 - A nine-year-old Italian boy whose death in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Marsa Alam is the subject of a probe into possible treatment delays died of a pre-existing brain tumour and bacterial pneumonia that led to cardiac arrest, a local medical examiner said Friday.
    "The death was caused by complications from a brain tumor, which the child was already suffering from before going to Egypt, in addition to a bacterial pneumonia infection, which led to cardiac arrest", the "Red Sea Health Directorate" wrote on Facebook, referring to the death of Mattia Cossettini, from Tricesimo near Udine, who died in Egypt this week while he was on vacation in Marsa Alam with his family.
    Local authorities have opened an investigation into the death of the boy to determine its cause and possible delays in diagnosis and treatment.
    Medical sources originally said the child could have died from a brain haemorrhage.
    Cossettini fainted during a boat excursion and was taken to the resort's doctor who treated him for a heat stroke.
    A few hours later, however, his condition deteriorated and his parents decided to take him to a local hospital, where he died shortly after his arrival. (ANSA).