Overview
- A provisional forensic assessment indicates the deaths were likely caused by exposure to a chemical on the hotel premises, making a food-borne source unlikely.
- Police are examining a bedbug treatment applied in a lower-floor room and whether fumes entered the family’s room via ventilation, with some reports citing aluminium phosphide.
- Authorities have detained 11 people, and a judge issued arrest warrants for four food sellers on negligent-homicide allegations.
- The hotel has been evacuated and sealed while investigators collect water, food and chemical-residue samples, and at least two other guests were treated for similar symptoms.
- Definitive cause-of-death findings await further pathological, microbiological and toxicological analyses, with a fuller forensic report expected later this month.