A cruise ship operator is being accused of “failure of care and common sense” after an elderly female passenger was left behind on a Australian island and died.

The accusation comes from the daughter of 80-year-old Suzanne Rees of New South Wales, the latter who was hiking Saturday on Lizard Island with fellow passengers when she began feeling ill and separated from the group. She didn’t return to the cruise ship, the Coral Adventurer, before it left.

Suzanne’s daughter Katherine Rees said she was “shocked and saddened” that the cruise ship had left without her mother, reports NBC news.

In a statement Thursday, Katherine said police told the family it was extremely hot that day and her mother began feeling badly during the group hike to the highest peak, Cook’s Look, and was told to r

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