Overview
- İstanbul’s health chief confirmed the father’s death, raising the toll to four German tourists from Hamburg.
- Police evacuated and sealed the Fatih hotel as teams sampled drinking water and room materials after a ground‑floor room was treated with chemicals.
- Investigators are testing whether contaminated street food or exposure to pest‑control substances, including reported bedbug pesticides, led to the fatalities.
- Eleven suspects are in custody, including street vendors, hotel staff and fumigation workers, with four placed in pretrial detention on negligent‑homicide allegations.
- Initial autopsies were inconclusive, and officials are still awaiting toxicology and forensic results from food, water and environmental samples; two other hotel guests were treated and are not in danger.