According to local media, the hotel where a Turkish-German family was staying while the mother and two children were suspected of being poisoned was evacuated on Saturday.
The unnamed hotel in the Fatih neighborhood, close to Istanbul’s historic peninsula, had all of its guests moved to other hotels, according to the BirGun daily, though it did not specify the number of individuals involved.
The newspaper stated, without providing any details, that two other visitors staying at the same hotel were admitted to the hospital on Saturday after experiencing nausea and vomiting.
The family became unwell on Wednesday after consuming a number of well-known street food items in the Ortakoy neighborhood, which is located near a bridge that spans the Bosphorus.
They were taken to hospital but the two children, aged six and three, died on Thursday and the mother a day later, the justice minister said.
The father remained in “critical condition”, Istanbul’s regional health chief Abdullah Emre Guner said late Friday on X.
Different media reports looked at various foods the family was thought to have eaten.
But investigators have also discovered that a room on the ground floor of the hotel had recently been sprayed with pesticides, the Hurriyet news website reported Saturday.
Police had detained a hotel employee and two pest control workers, raising the number of people held in connection with the incident to seven, it added.
They said the family was Turkish, but living in Germany. They had come to Istanbul on holiday.
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