At least one tourist dead after massive fire nearly destroys Caribbean resort, 1,690 evacuated

At least one Italian tourist is dead with several more injured after a massive fire in the Dominican Republic resort town Bayahibe on Friday. The deceased woman, 46-year-old Italian national Francesca Valentino, died at the resort's Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach Hotel, according to the Dominican Republic's Directorate of Out-of-Hospital Emergency Services (DAEH). At least nine other people were treated for injuries, with three of those taken to off-site medical facilities, DAEH said in a statemen