US EditionSuspected street food poisoning kills mum, two kids in Istanbul
- On Nov 15 the unnamed Fatih hotel was evacuated and guests relocated after a Turkish-German mother and two children died from suspected poisoning.
- The family fell ill on Nov 12 after eating street food in Ortakoy waterside neighbourhood at the foot of the Bosphorus bridge, including stuffed mussels, soup, kokorec, Turkish delight and water.
- Abdullah Emre Guner said late on Nov 14 that the children aged six and three were admitted then initially discharged before all four family members were readmitted at night, and forensic investigators have collected drinking water samples.
- Four street-food vendors have been arrested and police detained a hotel employee and two pest-control workers, while other tourists hospitalised on Nov 15 were noted; three victims were buried Saturday in Afyonkarahisar.
- Investigators found a ground-floor hotel room recently sprayed with likely pesticides, and the hotel owner told CNN Türk only water was available, complicating the ongoing probe.
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A family from Hamburg is said to have become so sick by street food on holiday in Turkey that 3 family members died. Now the investigators follow a different path.
Two children aged 3 and 6 and their mother died of suspected poisoning while they were on vacation in Istanbul. Dad hospitalized in serious condition. And now the hotel where they were staying was evacuated. The Böcek family had arrived in Istanbul from Germany on November 9: the hospitalization on November 12, with symptoms of suspected poisoning. Then, the death of the children Kadir Muhammet Böcek (6) and Masal Böcek (3), and of the mother Çi…
A family from Hamburg travels to Istanbul, a few days later mother and children are dead, the father is still in intensive care. Was food poisoning caused by street food the cause of death or is the hotel to blame?
Investigators discovered that one of the ground floor rooms had recently been treated with insecticide, and several people were questioned. Three members of the family were dead, and the father is still in intensive care.
How did mother and children from Hamburg die on their holidays? New cases of suspected poisoning in Istanbul bring the investigators on a new trail.
According to media reports, investigations have found that the ground floor of the hotel had recently been treated with pesticides.
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