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Istanbul Hotel Sealed as Probe Into German Family Deaths Widens

With lab results pending, investigators are testing hotel samples to determine whether food, water or pesticides caused the deaths.

Overview

  • Turkish authorities evacuated and sealed the Fatih hotel where the Hamburg family stayed, removing items for laboratory analysis and taking drinking-water samples.
  • Police say a ground‑floor room had recently been treated with chemicals used for pest control, and two of the workers who carried out the procedure were detained.
  • Eight suspects have been taken into custody to date, including a hotel official, pest‑control workers, four streetfood sellers and a nearby baker, with no proven link among them so far.
  • Two other guests of the hotel — reported as an Italian and a Moroccan — were hospitalized with nausea and vomiting but are not in life‑threatening condition.
  • The exact cause remains unconfirmed after an inconclusive initial autopsy; toxicology and environmental tests are pending, while the father remains in intensive care and the victims were buried in Afyonkarahisar.