A British tourist was “nearly burnt alive” in his hotel room in Egypt when he got an electric shock which went through his fillings.
Steve Ellis, 42, says he was on a ten night trip at the Coral Sea Imperial Sensatori hotel in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, when he put his hand on the bed-side light and was “thrown to the floor.”
He says that although he only had the electric shock for around 15 seconds, he has been told by doctors that he “nearly burnt alive” because the electric was going to the fillings in his mouth.
Steven said: “I’ve got fillings in my mouth so the electric was going up there – it burnt my mouth.
“If I wasn’t able to get myself off the lamp, then I would have burnt alive.
“I’m pretty lucky.
“A child could have touched the lamp and then they wouldn’t have been so lucky.”
Steve says that he was getting out of his bed, when he touched the bedside light with his left hand and started suffering from an electric shock.
His left hand then became stuck to the light so he placed his right hand on the light – but that also became stuck.
Steven, a dad-of-one, was then thrown from the bed while suffering from an electric shock and was forced to shout for help as he was alone in the hotel room.
He was later checked over by the hotel’s doctor and went to visit the holiday rep for the hotel, who he says ‘wasn’t that bothered’ by the incident.
Steve, of Gloucester, said: “We said we wanted to make a report and he questioned it.
“He turned to my partner and wanted her to lie and say that she saw the incident, when she didn’t.
“I turned to him and nearly walked out – they said it would look better for the paperwork if we lied.
“I wasn’t going to lie on a document because that could come back to us.”
Steve says that he didn’t use the lamp before the incident but later noticed that there were wires sticking out of the lamp.
He said: “There were wires sticking out of the lamp.
“But it wasn’t something you would notice without going ‘oh, those cables are stuck out.’
“You wouldn’t have noticed it until it happened.”
Straight after the incident, which happened in January this year, Steve was left with a ring-shaped burn around his mouth.
He also had blood tests and an electrocardiogram (ECG) scan to check the electrical activity of his heart.
Steve says that his hands “feel like they are burning and tingling” constantly, so he is struggling to work as a kitchen fitter.
He said: “My hands feel like they are burning and tingling every day.
“My shoulder is in agony, it hurts when I lift things as well.
“I get half-way through the day and I’m in so much pain.
“I’m losing money because I’m having to come home early or have days off.”
Their holiday provider has been contacted for a comment.
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