Two Dutch teenagers were found dead in their hotel room in Istanbul and their hospitalized father, Turkish media reported on Saturday, with initial suspicions falling on a restaurant meal they had eaten.
The boys, aged 15 and 17, were died when the police and paramedical paramedics arrived at the hotel where they stayed, in the District of Fatih, near the Blue Mosque of Istanbul and the Grand Bazaar, according to the NTV television channel.
“Upon their arrival, paramedical paramedics noted that the two children died. The father was taken to the hospital by ambulance” in a state of shock, the chain reported.
The three were on vacation in Türkiye and would have been to the Taksim tourist district for dinner, the media said.
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The 57 -year -old father told the police that he had gone with his sons to Taksim “but had not eaten,” Haber Turk said.
Later in the evening, after his return to the hotel, the father called the boys, who did not respond. An employee of the hotel, Mehmet Kirdag, heard the father cry to get help, reported NTV.
“When I hit the door and entered, the two sons died, one of them in bed, the other on the ground … When the paramedical paramedics arrived, the two young men died. The father was in shock,” said Kirdag.
Istanbul police launched an investigation, NTV reported.
