Overview
- Two additional guests from Italy and Morocco who stayed at the same Fatih hotel were hospitalized with nausea and vomiting, according to Turkish media.
- Authorities now count seven detainees, including four street vendors previously held and, on Saturday, a hotel responsible person and two individuals tied to a room disinfection, local reports say.
- Investigators sealed a suspected shop in Beşiktaş, collected samples from eateries and hotel water, and reviewed security footage from the property.
- An initial autopsy report offered few clues; prosecutors have involved a homicide unit to examine possible external interference, Turkish outlets report, while food poisoning remains a leading line of inquiry pending lab results.
- The mother and two children were buried in Afyonkarahisar as the father remains in critical condition in an Istanbul intensive care unit.