Sick cruise passengers set to sue for £2.5m over stomach bug outbreak

SICK passengers aboard a luxury liner are ready to sue for £2.5 million, lawyers warned yesterday.

Ill customers could claim as much as £6,000 each for ruined holidays, according to solicitors who have handled similar claims.

Around 430 passengers on board the P&O Cruises liner, Aurora, have been hit by a highly contagious stomach virus. The outbreak has caused passengers to be violently ill. Customers have had their once-in-a-lifetime holidays ruined by projectile vomiting and diarrhoea.