Uzbekistan's Prosecutor General's Office has opened a criminal case into the food poisoning of Kazakh football players who traveled to Tashkent. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Sputnik Kazakhstan.
According to official information, 20 children and their relatives who came to participate in a football tournament ate undercooked eggs and sausage for breakfast at a hotel in Tashkent on November 1.
"On the same day, 13 of them showed symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever. After that, they were taken by ambulance to the republican specialized scientific and practical medical center for epidemiology, microbiology, infectious and parasitic diseases," the official statement said.
Currently, the Chilanzar district prosecutor's office has opened a criminal case under Article 276 of the Criminal Code (violation of sanitary legislation or rules for combating epidemics). The district internal affairs department has launched investigative measures.