Seven people arrested in case of poisoning children in Tashkent region
The case was transferred directly to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Law enforcement agencies detained seven people after the mass poisoning of children in kindergartens in the Tashkent region, Kun reports.
Three of the detainees are heads of a food industry enterprise, whose products, according to preliminary data, were the cause of the poisoning. Earlier, it was reported that Shark Milk company kefir was suspected.
Another four people are heads of outsourcing companies that supplied food products to kindergartens. The criminal case was transferred from the jurisdiction of the regional Department of Internal Affairs directly to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Earlier, Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Committee spokesman Nurmat Otabekov reported that as of September 27, nearly 700 children are being treated in hospitals, with only 13 of them in moderate condition. A total of 1922 children were admitted to hospitals, but 959 of them had no confirmed diagnosis.
Children continue treatment in seven hospitals in the Tashkent region, while poisoning affected kindergartens in Olmaliq, Nurafshon, Bekabad, Akkurgan, Buka, Pskent, and Kuyichirchik districts.
As a reminder, the “Adolat” party called on the Prosecutor General’s Office to punish those responsible for poisoning children in the Tashkent region. The deputies took the situation under parliamentary control.
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