The report notes that on February 16, four foreigners were taken from a Turkish seiner to the intensive care unit of the Gagra Central Hospital with signs of severe poisoning.

“Three patients were connected to oxygen, one is on mechanical ventilation. Three other passengers of the ship died, their bodies were taken to the morgue,” the department’s press service noted.

Previously, a case of mass poisoning with an unknown substance near Kaliningrad was reported, as a result of which 23 schoolchildren were injured.