Complex sentence: Eight-year-old Joan Cianfarra, the sister sleeping on the adjoining bed in Linda's cabin was killed, as was their father and step-father Camille Cianfarra, a longtime foreign correspondent for "The New York Times", stationed in Spain.
Split into simpler sentences: Eight-year-old Joan Cianfarra, the sister sleeping on the adjoining bed in Linda's cabin was killed. So, too, in the adjacent cabin, was was their father and step-father, respectively, Camille Cianfarra, a longtime foreign correspondent for "The New York Times", stationed in Spain.