According to the prosecutor's office, on July 27 at 05:30, three children with signs of food poisoning arrived at the Yekaterinburg-Passenger train station on the St. Petersburg-Tyumen train, and they were hospitalized.

"According to preliminary information, a group of children of 18 people and 2 accompanying persons ate at the restaurant of the Ladoga hotel in St. Petersburg before the trip," the prosecutor's office said.

It is noted that on the way, the children felt bad, some of them were taken off the train at the stations of Sharya and Kirov to provide medical assistance.

Specialists of the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology of the Sverdlovsk Region took samples and samples of water and food on the train.

Earlier it was reported that more than 100 students of the St. Petersburg State University of Railways of Emperor Alexander I were poisoned at a recreation center in the Leningrad Region.