Overview
- The city Investigative Committee opened a pre-investigation after reports that students fell ill following a visit to a college cafeteria on October 29.
- Emergency-service sources said seven students sought medical care with a preliminary finding of intestinal infection.
- The St. Petersburg prosecutor’s office announced a review of the college’s catering for adherence to sanitary-epidemiological rules.
- Rospotrebnadzor and law-enforcement inquiries are underway under prosecutorial control, and the exact cause has not been determined.
- TASS reported the case involves a college in the Moskovsky District, and a civic figure said she forwarded student complaints about unsanitary conditions to authorities, which officials have not confirmed.