“On the evening of February 22, 2020, 9 people were hospitalized in the hospital of the city of Naberezhnye Chelny with signs of poisoning with bleaching powder, burns of the eyes and respiratory tract, including 8 minors aged 7 to 17 years,” TASS reports from the regional SK.

A criminal case has been opened on the grounds of corpus delicti provided for in Part 1 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of Russia (“Performance of work or provision of services that do not meet safety requirements”).

According to the results of the audit, the Rospotrebnadzor of Tatarstan revealed a three-fold excess of the permissible concentration of chlorine in the air in the basin in Naberezhnye Chelny.