Overview

• Regional authorities say the incident is being treated as a probable salmonella outbreak, with samples collected from the hotel kitchen for lab analysis.
• About 20 people were taken to hospital, including a 15-month-old and seven children, with most patients sent to Santa Lucia Hospital in Cartagena.
• Emergency crews set up a field hospital at the seafront property as ambulances transported patients and some guests received rehydration treatment.
• Illnesses followed a Saturday lunch, with reports of nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and fever, and cases rising from an initial 28 to more than 100 among roughly 800 guests.
• Guests have blamed a fish dish or spinach-filled pasta from the buffet, but investigators have not identified any specific source.